On the Ethics of Naturalism (Shaw Fellowship Lectures, 1884)

xii, 292, 24 pp. William Ritchie Sorley was a Scottish philosopher of the British Idealist School. CONTENTS: Ethics and Its Problems; Part I. The Individualistic Theory: Egoism - The Transition to Utilitarianism - Moral Sentiment; Part II. The Theory of Evolution: The Theory of Evolution and the Development of Morality - Evolution and Ethical Theories - Hedonism and Evolutionism - The Evolutionist End - On the Basis of Ethics.