prevailed in the past. Instruction in the History of Ethics, like instruction in the History of Philosophy, has largely been based on text-books or lectures giving expositions of, and information about, the various systems. Such methods, although serviceable, are not as stimulating and helpful as those which put the student in direct contact with the text of the author, enabling him to study the system itself rather than to study about the system. Undoubtedly the best plan would be to have the student read the entire work of the author, but all teachers will probably concede the impracticability of this in undergraduate work, if a num. ber of systems is to be studied, which is usually desirable. Only inferior, in my judgment, to the best, but impracticable plan is the plan of the “ Ethical Scries,” – to study selec. tions or extracts from the original works, embodying the substance of the system. The “Series" makes provision for such work in a convenient and comparatively inexpensive manner. That the plan of instruction on which the “Series" is based is in the interest of better scholarship, I am assured by my own experience, and by that of many other teachers in the leading colleges of the country, with whom I have communicated. It is with the earnest hope of facilitating instruction and study in the History of Ethics that this Series is issued. E. HERSHEY SNEATH. YALE UNIVERSITY. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAON 41. EXPOSITION OF THE ETHICS OF TIONES , III. CONSIDERATIONS STUDYING THE ETICS OF III. OF THE CONSEQUENCE OR TRAIN OF IMAGINATIONS VI. OF THE INTERIOR BEGINNINGS OF VOLUNTARY MOTIONS; COMMONLY CALLED THE L’ASSIONS; AND TIIE. SPEECTIES BY WHICIL THEY ARE EXPRESSED . VII. OF THE Ends, OR RESOLUTIONS OF DISCOURSE VIII. OF THE VIRTUES COMMONLY CALLED INTELLECTUAL, PAGR 118 126 XI. OF THE DIFFERENCE OF MANNERS XIII. OF THE NATURAL CONDITION OF MANKIND AS cox. CERNING THEIR FELICITY, AND MISERY XVII. OF THE CAUSES, GENERATION, AND DEFINITION OF A XVIII. OF THE RIGHTS OF SOVEREIGNS BY INSTITUTION 183 XIX. OF THE SEVERAL KINDS OF COMMONWEALTH BY INSTITUTION, AND OF SUCCESSION TO THE SOVER. XX. OF DOMINION PATERNAL, AND DESPOTICAL XXI. OF THE LIBERTY OF SUBJECTS . XXII. Or Systems SUBJECT, POLITICAL AND PRIVATE 224 XXIII. OF THE PUBLIC MINISTERS OF SOVEREIGN POWER XXIV. OF THE NUTRITION, AND PROCREATION OF A Como XXVII. OF CRIMES, EXCUSES, AND EXTENUATIONS XXVIII. OF PUNISHMENTS AND REWARDS XXIX. OF THOSE THINGS THAT WEAKEN, OR TEND TO THE XXX. OF THE OFFICE OF THE SOVEREIGN REPRESENTATIVE 319 . 281 |