X. The Impact of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries on Ethics

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents IX
4. Part One: Some Classic Ethical Systems
5. I. The Meaning of Moral Law 3
6. II. The Chinese Mind in Ethics: Confucius 16
7. III. The Radical Ethic of Gautama, the Buddha 29
8. IV. Socrates, Pioneer of the Western Ethical Thinkers 49
9. V. Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics 63
10. VI. Jesus and the Jewish-Christian Ethical Heritage 73
11. VII. Spanning the Realms of Nature and Grace: Saint Thomas Aquinas 92
12. VIII. Pantheism and Determinism in the Ethic of Benedict de Spinoza 118
13. IX. Kant’s Construction: the Categorical Imperative of Duty 136
14. X. The Impact of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries on Ethics 159
15. Part Two: Making Ethics a Science
16. XI. The Content Of Moral Law 191
17. XII. The Problem of Ethical Method 203
18. XIII. Unsolved Problems and Undiscerned Ends in Ethics 214
19. XIV. The Dimensions of Ethics 237
20. XV. The Aim of Ethics 257
21. Bibliography 265
22. Index 271