Principles And Practice Of Morality Or, Ethical Principles Discussed And Applied - Tapa blanda

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Morals may justly be challenged to prove its right to appear in. an already over-crowded community of similar treatises. The only answer that in this case can be given is, that the book has been made for a service which no one of its predecessors could be persuaded to render. It embodies the lectures its author has given to his classes in Ethics, and is, what it purports to be, distinctively a text-book. It touches existing controversies only so far as is necessary for the elucidation or defence of its own positions. The aim has been to condense rather than to expand its discussions, and to diminish rather than to multiply its pages. Numerous references to authors, with foot-notes and statements of controverted points, have been purposely omitted. One of the easy, and one of the useless things in a text-book on morals at the present day, is to accumulate such references and notes. Too many of them distract the students attention, and often bewilder him. Well-read teachers make little or no use of them; teachers who are not well-read commonly lack the time or inclination to look up the references for their own in formation. Most of what the author has thought it necessary or desirable to say respecting the various schools of moralists and their methods may be found in the somewhat lengthened Chapter III. of Part II. Division IV. on The Ultimate Ground ofO
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