Lectures and Essays on Natural Theology and Ethics

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Biographical Introduction vii
• Lectures On Natural Religion and The Relation of Religion to Morality 1
• Introductory Note To the Gifford Lectures 3
• I - The Scope of Natural Theology 5
• II - The Greek Origins of Theology 24
• IV - Religion and Morality.--The Definition Of Religion 52
• V - The Ethical Movement in Religion 60
• VI - Mr. Balfour's 'Foundations of Belief' 73
• VII - Naturalism and Rationalism. -- the Scientific And the Philosophical Point of View.-- The Main Condition of the Evolution Of Reason 93
• VIII - Social and Individual Conditions of The Development of Ethics 113
• IX - Man's Relation to Nature.--Materialistic And Idealistic Views of It 130
• X - Morality as Civilization.--The Material Basis Of the Moral Life 147
• XI - On Some Relations of Morals, Science, And Religion 168
• XII - The Essential Nature of Religion and Its Relation to Morality. -- the Belief In Immortality 191

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Biographical Introduction vii
• Lectures On Natural Religion and The Relation of Religion to Morality 1
• Introductory Note To the Gifford Lectures 3
• I - The Scope of Natural Theology 5
• II - The Greek Origins of Theology 24
• IV - Religion and Morality.--The Definition Of Religion 52
• V - The Ethical Movement in Religion 60
• VI - Mr. Balfour's 'Foundations of Belief' 73
• VII - Naturalism and Rationalism. -- the Scientific And the Philosophical Point of View.-- The Main Condition of the Evolution Of Reason 93
• VIII - Social and Individual Conditions of The Development of Ethics 113
• IX - Man's Relation to Nature.--Materialistic And Idealistic Views of It 130
• X - Morality as Civilization.--The Material Basis Of the Moral Life 147
• XI - On Some Relations of Morals, Science, And Religion 168
• XII - The Essential Nature of Religion and Its Relation to Morality. -- the Belief In Immortality 191
• Essays in Moral Philosophy. 211
• I - Our Natural Rights 213
• II - Person and Personality 265
• III - Responsibility 301
• IV - Duty 314
• V - Hedonism 343
• VI - Utilitarianism 374
• VII - The Ethics of Socialism 399
• VIII - Relations of Fichte and Hegel to Socialism 427
• IX - The Legal, Social, and Religious Sanctions Of Morality 448
• Critical Essays 479
• I - Hermann Lotze 481
• II - Nietzsche's Criticism of Morality 511
• III - Thus Spake Zarathustra 530
• IV - Studies in the Hegelian Dialectic 542