โ Scribed by John Laird
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Compares and examines what John Laird termed the 'three most important notions in ethical science': the concepts of virtue, duty and well-being. Poses the question of whether any one of these three concepts is capable of being the foundation of ethics and of supporting the other two.
Contents
Introduction
Part I. Virtue or the Theory of Aretaics
I. General Considerations
II. Classification of the Virtues
III. The Springs of Virtue: And Their Expression
IV. The Heart and the Head
V. The Heart and the Will
VI. Moral and Non-Moral Virtue
VII. Our Knowledge of Virtue
Part II. Duty or the Theory of Deontology
VIII. Discussion of Conceptions
IX. Duty and the Will
X. Classification of Voluntary Obligations
XI. Some Problems About Obligation
XII. Duty and Benefit: A Restricted Discussion
XIII. The Greatness and Conflict of Obligations
Part III. Benefit and Well-Being Which in the Form of Well-Doing May Be Called Agathopoeics
XIV. The Terms Employed
XV. Classification of Goods
XVI. The Comparison of Goods
XVII. Duty and Benefit Again
XVIII. Further Discussion of Utilitarianism
XIX. Of Agathopoeics in General
Index
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