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Personal Growth & Self-Development
History as past ethics; an introduction to the history of morals
Philip Van Ness Myers
499 pages~9 hr 56 min read80 chapters$4.99
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
- 1HISTORY AS PAST ETHICS
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4HISTORY AS PAST ETHICS
- 5CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
- 6CHAPTER II THE DAWN OF MORALITY: CONSCIENCE IN THE KINSHIP GROUP
- 7I. Institutions, Ideas, and Conditions of Life determining the Rules of Conduct
- 8II. Essential Facts of Kinship or Intratribal Morality
- 9III. The Beginnings of Intertribal Morality
- 10CHAPTER III THE MORAL LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT: AN IDEAL OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
- 11I. Circumstances and Ideas which molded and motived Morality
- 12II. The Ideal
- 13CHAPTER IV THE BABYLONIAN-ASSYRIAN CONSCIENCE
- 14CHAPTER V CHINESE MORALS: AN IDEAL OF FILIAL PIETY
- 15I. Ideas, Institutions, and Historical Circumstances determining the Cast of the Moral Ideal
- 16II. The Ideal
- 17III. Effects of the Ideal upon Chinese Life and History
- 18CHAPTER VI JAPANESE MORALS: AN IDEAL OF LOYALTY
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