Moral Phenomena - Volume 1 by Hartmann, Nicolai -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Transaction Introduction Editor’s Introduction Translator’s Preface Foreword Contents Introduction

1. The First Fundamental Question 2. The Creative Power in Man 3. The Meaning of “Practical” in Philosophy 4. The Valuational Wealth of the Real and Participation Therein 5. The Second Fundamental Question 6. The Valuational Constituents of Persons and Situations 7. Passing by on the Other Side 8. The Modern Man

Part I: The Structure of the Ethical Phenomenon - (Phenomenology of Morals)

Section I: Contemplative and Normative Ethics

Chapter I: The Competency of Practical Philosophy

(a) Moral Commandments, the General Type, their Claim to Acceptation (b) Ethical Relativism (c) Ethical Absolutism

Chapter II: Can Virtue be Taught?

(a) The Proposition of Socrates (b) The Christian Conception of “Sin” (c) Schopenhauer’s Purely Theoretical Ethics (d) Plato’s Meno and the Solution of the Difficulty

Chapter III: The Right Meaning of the Normative

(a) The Indirectly Normative (b) The Visible Field and the Idea of Ethics (c) Ethics and Pedagogy (d) Theoretical and Ethical Apriorism

Section II: The Plurality of Morals and Unity of Ethics

Chapter IV: Multiplicity and Unity in Moral Consciousness

(a) The Historical Multiplicity of Moral Commandments (b) Current Morality and Pure Ethics (c) Further Dimensions of the Manifold (d) The Unity Sought For and the Investigation of Values

Chapter V: The Knowledge of Good and Evil

(a) Commandments, Ends and Values (b) The Myth of the Tree of Knowledge (c) Nietzsche’s Discovery and the Discoverer’s Error

Chapter VI: The Pathway to the Discovery of Values

(a) Revolution of the Ethos and the Narrowness of the Sense of Value (b) The Champion of Ideas and the Crowd (c) Backward - looking and Forward - looking Ethics (d) Theoretical and Ethical Investigation of Principles (e) Categories and Values, Laws and Commandments (f) Ethical Actuality and the Fact of the Primary Consciousness of Value (g) The Possibility of Illusion and of a Spurious Moral Consciousness

Chapter VII: The Various Domains of the Moral Phenomenon

(a) The Scope of the Given in the Investigation of Values (b) Law and Ethics (c) Religion and Mythology (d) Psychology, Pedagogy, Politics, History, Art and Artistic Education

Section III: False Methods of Philosophical Ethics

Chapter VIII: Egoism and Altruism

(a) Self-Preservation and Self-Assertion (b) The Truth and Falsehood of the Egoistic Theory (c) The Metaphysic of Altruism (d) Self-Appraisement through the Appraisement of Others (e) The Fundamental Relationship of “I” and “Thou,” their Conflict and Value

Chapter IX: EudÆmonism and Utilitarianism

(a) Aristippus and Epicurus (b) The Stoic View (c) Christianity and Neo-Platonism (d) The Social Eudæmonism of Modern Times

Chapter X: Criticism and the Ethical Significance of Eudæmonism

(a) The Natural Limit of Utilitarianism (b) The Right and the Limit of the Ethics of Consequences (c) The Reappearance of Suppressed Values (d) The Valuational Illusion in Social Eudæmonism and its Danger (e) The Inherent Value of Happiness and its Relation to the Moral Values Proper (f) Striving for Happiness and Capacity for Happiness

Section IV: The Kantian Ethics

Chapter XI: The Subjectivism of the Practical Reason

(a) Kant’s Doctrine of the “Subjective” Origin of the Ought (b) Transcendental Subjectivism and the Freedom of the Will (c) The Kantian Alternative (d) The False Inference in the Kantian Apriorism

Chapter XII: Critique of Formalism

(a) The Meaning of the “Formal” in the Categorical Imperative (b) The Historical Prejudice in Favour of “Form” (c) Formalism and Apriorism

Chapter XIII: Critique of Intellectualism

(a) Intellectualism and Apriorism (b) Sense-Perception, Objectivity and Aposteriority (c) Thought, Understanding and Apriority (d) The Emotional Apriorism of the Sense of Value (e) The Idea of a “Material Ethics of Values”

Section V: The Essence of Ethical Values

Chapter XIV: Values as Essences

(a) Preliminary Consideration of Essence (b) Goods and their Values (c) Valuational Apriority and Absoluteness (d) Will, End and the Moral Judgment of Values (e) Example and Imitation (f) Ethical Idealization and Valuational Consciousness (g) Accountability, Responsibility, and the Consciousness of Guilt (h) Conscience and the Ethical a Priori (i) The Ancient Concept of Virtue as a Concrete Concept of Value

Chapter XV: The Relativity and Absoluteness of Values

(a) Subjectivity and Relativity (b) The Relativity of Goods to the Subject and the Relational Structure of Concrete Values (c) The Absoluteness of Moral Values and the Relativity of the Dependent Values of Goods (d) The Material Relation of Moral Values to Persons as Objects (e) The Material Relation of Moral Values to the Person as a Subject (f) The Interpenetration of Relations and the Underlying Absoluteness of Moral Values

Chapter XVI: The Ideal Self-Existence of Values

(a) The Self-Existence of Values for Knowledge (b) Ethical Reality and the Ethical Ideal Sphere (c) Ideal Self-Existence in General (d) The Ethico-Ideal Self-Existence of Values (e) Valuational Delusion and Blindness (f) The Transference of Attention and the Limits of Valuational Knowledge

Chapter XVII: Values as Principles

(a) Relation of Values to Reality (b) Values as Principles of the Ideal Ethical Sphere (c) Values as Principles of the Actual Ethical Sphere (d) Values as Principles of the Real Ethical Sphere (e) Teleological Metaphysics and the Ethical Phenomenon of Values

Section VI: The Essence of the Ought

Chapter XVIII: The Relation of Value and the Ought

(a) The Ideal Ought-to-Be (b) The Positive Ought-to-Be (c) Range of Tension, Degree of Actuality and the Ethical Dimension of the Ought-to-Be (d) Plurality of Dimensions and Variety of Values

Chapter XIX: Position of the Ought towards the Subject

(a) The Pole of the Ought-to-Be in Real Existence (b) The Rôle of the Subject in the Metaphysic of the Ought (c) Ought-to-Be and Ought-to-Do, the Metaphysical Weakness of the Principle and the Strength of the Subject (d) Value and End, the Ought and the Will (e) The Appearance of Subjectivity in the Ought and the Axiological Determination (f) Subject and Person (g) Personality Conditioned by Value and the Ought

Chapter XX: The Ought and the Finalistic Nexus

(a) Categorial Analysis of Value and the Ought (b) Primary and Secondary Determination (c) The Finalistic Nexus as a Threefold Process (d) Forward and Backward Determination in the Finalistic Nexus (e) Duplication and Identity of the End (f) Man’s Providence and Predestination

Chapter XXI: The Teleology of Values and the Metaphysic of Man

(a) Teleology, Natural and Cosmic (b) Philosophical Anthropomorphism and the Primacy of Axiological Determination (c) The Nullification of Man and the Inversion of the Fundamental Law of Categories (d) Ethics and Ontology, Man and Nature (e) Human Teleology and “Chance”

Section VII: Metaphysical Perspectives

Chapter XXII: Teleological Action and Reaction

(a) The Interlacing of Causality and Finality (b) The Community of Convergent and Divergent Purposes (c) Purposive Contradictions and Valuational Conflicts

Chapter XXIII: The Modal Structure of the Ought

(a) The Problem of Modality in the Nature of Value and the Ought (b) Ontological Necessity and Actuality (c) The Abrogation of the Equipoise of Possibility and Necessity in the Positive Ought-to-Be (d) The Modality of the Ideal Ought-to-Be and of the Self-Existence of Values (e) The Difficulties of Free Necessity (f) Freedom, Actualization and Possibility

Chapter XXIV: The Metaphysics of Personality

(a) Personalistic Metaphysics (b) Scheler’s Doctrine of Person and Act (c) Acts and Persons as Objects (d) Personality and Subjectivity, “I” and “Thou” (e) Person and World

Chapter XXV: Metaphysical Personalism

(a) The Idea of the World and the Idea of God (b) The Individual Person and the Communal Person (c) “Persons of a Higher Order” and the Consciousness of such an Order (d) Ascending Orders of Corporate Bodies and Descending Orders of Personality (e) Ethics and Theology

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