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The Methods of Ethics

by Henry Sidgwick

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  1. 1Preface to the First Edition
  2. 2Preface to the Second Edition
  3. 3Preface to the Third Edition
  4. 4Preface to the Fourth Edition
  5. 5Preface to the Fifth Edition
  6. 6Preface to the Sixth Edition
  7. 7Prefatory Note to the Seventh Edition
  8. 8Contents
  9. 9Book I
  10. 10Chapter II — The Relation of Ethics to Politics
  11. 11Chapter III — Ethical Judgments
  12. 12Chapter IV — Pleasure and Desire
  13. 13Chapter V — Free Will
  14. 14Chapter VI — Ethical Principles and Methods
  15. 15Chapter VII — Egoism and Self-Love
  16. 16Chapter VIII — Intuitionism
  17. 17Chapter IX — Good
  18. 18Book II — Egoistic Hedonism
  19. 19Chapter II — Empirical Hedonism
  20. 20Chapter III — Empirical Hedonism — Continued
  21. 21Chapter IV — Objective Hedonism and Common Sense
  22. 22Chapter V — Happiness and Duty
  23. 23Chapter VI — Deductive Hedonism
  24. 24Book III — Intuitionism
  25. 25Chapter II — Virtue and Duty
  26. 26Chapter III — Wisdom and Self-Control
  27. 27Chapter IV — Benevolence
  28. 28Chapter V — Justice
  29. 29Chapter VI — Laws and Promises
  30. 30Chapter VII — The Classification of Duties — Veracity
  31. 31Chapter VIII — Other Social Duties and Virtues
  32. 32Chapter IX — Self-Regarding Virtues
  33. 33Chapter X — Courage, Humility, etc.
  34. 34Chapter XI — Review of the Morality of Common Sense
  35. 35Chapter XII — Motives or Springs of Action Considered as Subjects o…
  36. 36Chapter XIII — Philosophical Intuitionism
  37. 37Chapter XIV — Ultimate Good
  38. 38Book IV — Utilitarianism
  39. 39Chapter II — The Proof of Utilitarianism
  40. 40Chapter III — Relation of Utilitarianism to the Morality of Common…
  41. 41Chapter IV — The Method of Utilitarianism
  42. 42Chapter V — The Method of Utilitarianism — Continued
  43. 43Concluding Chapter — The Mutual Relations of the Three Methods
  44. 44Appendix — The Kantian Conception of Free Will

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