The Ethical Problem

The Ethical Problem

Excerpt from The Ethical Problem: Three Lectures on Ethics as a Science This second edition of The Ethical Problem contains besides the original three lectures the entire controversy that was thereby elicited, and also the author's replies to some prominent thinkers holding different views on the subject. The history of the lectures, the occasion of their delivery, and the incidents through which the controversy originated, are sufficiently explained in the preface of the first edition, which with a few unimportant alterations is here republished in its original form. While the circumstances under which the three lectures and the ensuing controversies originated are indifferent, they served to ventilate some of the most important questions of ethics, such as the nature of conscience, the distinction between moral law and moral rules, the ultimate basis of morality, the relation of pleasure and pain to moral motives and kindred topics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Ethical Problem

The Ethical Problem