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Publisher:

Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer

Place of Publication:

London

Publication Year:

1870

Subjects:

Ethics

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	CONTENTS OF BOOK I.

	CHAPTER I.
	§ PAGE
1.	Ethnic a part of Metaphysic	3
2.	The special scope of Ethic	7
3.	Relation of Ethic to Politic	18
4.	Connection between Ethic, History, and Physiology	24
5.	The method of subjective observation	28
6.	Need for this method	44
7.	Aim of the following analysis	51

	CHAPTER II.

	PART I. THE SENSES AND SENSATIONS.
8.	General distinctions and method	56
9.	The systematic sensations	60
10.	The special senses	67
	Taste and Smell	67
	Touch	69
11.	Hearing	73
12.	Sight	83


	PART II. THE EMOTIONS.
	§ PAGE
13.	Emotion and Representation	95
14.	The psychological theory examined	106
15.	Spinoza's theory examined	122

	PART III. THE DIRECT EMOTIONS.
	16.General distinctions and method	139
17.	Emotions arising from the matter	141
18.	Emotions arising from the form	144
19.	Emotions arising from comparison	156
20.	Imaginative emotions arising from the matter	161
21.	Imaginative emotions arising from the form	169
	Table of Direct Emotions	179

	PART IV. THE REFLECTIVE EMOTIONS.
22.	The phenomena of reflection	181
23.	Inferences from these phenomena	185
24.	The method to be followed	189
25.	The sympathetic emotions	192
26.	The antipathetic emotions	200
27.	Emotions subordinate to the two foregoing groups	201
28.	Passions belonging to both groups	202
29.	Emotions arising from comparison	209
	1st Comparison of possessions.
	2nd Comparison of nature.
30.	Emotions of reflections on Self alone	216
31.	Reflective emotions arising from the form. Justice and Injustice	220
32.	Justice and Injustice in actions	229
33.	Justice and Injustice in respect of property	236
34.	Veracity	239
35.	Equity and Mercy	243
36.	Indignation	245
37.	The Moral Sense	246
	§ PAGE
	38. History and method of the Moral Sense	254
	Table of Reflective Emotions 263

	PART V. THE REFLECTIVE AND IMAGINATIVE EMOTIONS.
39.	The inner nature of the world consists in emotion	264
40.	The two modes of reflective and imaginative emotion	268
41.	The nature of poetical emotion	270
42.	The modes of poetry; the poetical arts	276
	Music	278
	Architecture	288
	Painting	289
	Sculpture	290
43.	Poetry in language	290
44.	The religious emotions	305
45.	The method of religious thought	316
46.	The concord of religion and philosophy	321
47.	Provisional manifestation of God	325
48.	Retrospect	332
	Table of Reflective and Imaginative Emotions	334

	CHAPTER III.
49.	Combination of physiology with metaphysic	335
50.	The nervous organism	344
51.	The nerve movements	347
52.	The organs appropriated to 1st Presentation, 2nd Perception of Remote Objects, 3rd Pure Representation	353
53.	The laws of spontaneous redintegration	367
54.	Analysis of voluntary redintegration	381
55.	Analysis of speculative reasoning	391
56.	Analysis of practical reasoning	401
57.	Dependence of consciousness on nerve movement	416
58.	Distinction of functions in the cerebrum	436
	Note on Dreams	445

	CHAPTER IV.
	§ PAGE
59.	What the character is	447
60.	Influences operative on the character	456
61.	The emotional and intellectual tendencies	464
62.	The active and sluggish dispositions	468
63.	Subdivisions of the intellectual tendency; constructive and accumulative	475
64.	Subdivisions of the emotional tendency; the several tpes of character	479
65.	The duty-loving type; the Passion of Morality	485
66.	The erotic type	490
67.	The affectionate type	495
68.	The ambitious type	504
70.	The self-isolating type	511
71.	The amusement-seeker	514
72.	The normal course of development of the character	515
73.	The poetic and religious types	528
74.	Difference in character of the two sexes	553
75.	Concluding remarks. The Logic of Practice	560

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