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History as past ethics; an introduction to the history of morals

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History as past ethics; an introduction to the history of morals

Philip Van Ness Myers

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Conscience was born in the kinship group, and Myers traces its whole career from there. His introduction to the history of morals follows the institutions, ideas, and conditions of life that shaped each era's rules of conduct. History read as one long ethical experiment. Find out where your sense of right and wrong actually came from.

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80 chapters

  1. 1HISTORY AS PAST ETHICS
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4HISTORY AS PAST ETHICS
  5. 5CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
  6. 6CHAPTER II THE DAWN OF MORALITY: CONSCIENCE IN THE KINSHIP GROUP
  7. 7I. Institutions, Ideas, and Conditions of Life determining the Rules of Conduct
  8. 8II. Essential Facts of Kinship or Intratribal Morality
  9. 9III. The Beginnings of Intertribal Morality
  10. 10CHAPTER III THE MORAL LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT: AN IDEAL OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
  11. 11I. Circumstances and Ideas which molded and motived Morality
  12. 12II. The Ideal
  13. 13CHAPTER IV THE BABYLONIAN-ASSYRIAN CONSCIENCE
  14. 14CHAPTER V CHINESE MORALS: AN IDEAL OF FILIAL PIETY
  15. 15I. Ideas, Institutions, and Historical Circumstances determining the Cast of the Moral Ideal
  16. 16II. The Ideal
  17. 17III. Effects of the Ideal upon Chinese Life and History
  18. 18CHAPTER VI JAPANESE MORALS: AN IDEAL OF LOYALTY

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