Types of Ethical Theory, in Two Volumes

xxxii, 512; viii, 596 pp. Two volume set. VOLUME ONE CONTENTS: Introduction: I. Ethical Facts, Modes of Interpreting Them; II. Historical Instances and Subdivisions; Part I. Unpsychological Theories: I. Metaphysical: Transcendental; Plato; Immanental; Descartes; Malebranche; Spinoza; II. Physical: Comte. VOLUME II CONTENTS: Part II. Psychological Ethics: Introduction: I. Transition, II. Postulates Discussed; I. Idiopsychological Ethics: Fundamental Ethical Fact; Theory of Prudence; Merit and Demerit; Nature of Moral Authority; Springs of Action Classified, Psychological Order; Springs of Action Classified, Moral Order; Objections Considered; II. Hetero-Psychological Theories: Hedonist Ethics: Utilitarian Hedonism; Hedonism with Evolution; II. Dianoetic Ethics: Cudworth; Clarke; Price; III. Aesthetic Ethics: Shaftesbury; Hutcheson; Conclusion; Appendix; Index.