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Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law

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Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law

Joseph Rickaby

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Ethics, deontology, natural law: Rickaby's course walks the classical route from the definition of happiness to the duties of daily life. A standard philosophy manual of its day, orderly and precise, built for students who need the whole system in one volume. The old architecture of morals, fully drawn. Rigorous foundations for hard questions.

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76 chapters

  1. 1MORAL PHILOSOPHY:
  2. 2PREFACE (1905).
  3. 3PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION (1918)
  4. 4CONTENTS.
  5. 5PART III.—NATURAL LAW.
  6. 6ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA
  7. 7MORAL PHILOSOPHY.
  8. 8CHAPTER II.
  9. 9SECTION II.—Definition of Happiness.
  10. 10SECTION III.—Happiness open to man.
  11. 11SECTION IV.—Of the Object of Perfect Happiness.
  12. 12SECTION V.—Of the use of the present life.
  13. 13CHAPTER III.
  14. 14SECTION II.—Of the determinants of morality in any given action.
  15. 15CHAPTER IV.
  16. 16SECTION II.—Of Desire.
  17. 17SECTION III.—Of Delight.
  18. 18SECTION IV.—Of Anger.

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