CHAPTER					PAGE
I.	INTRODUCTION				1
II.	THE DAWN OF MORALITY: CONSCIENCE IN THE KINSHIP GROUP				12
		I.	Institutions, Ideas, and Conditions of Life determining the Rules of Conduct		12
		II.	Essential Facts of Kinship or Intratribal Morality		15
		III.	The Beginnings of Intertribal Morality		22
III.	THE MORAL LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT: AN IDEAL OF SOCIAL JUSTICE				30
		I.	Circumstances and Ideas which molded and motived Morality		30
		II.	The Ideal		33
IV.	THE BABYLONIAN-ASSYRIAN CONSCIENCE				45
V.	CHINESE MORALS: AN IDEAL OF FILIAL PIETY				53
		I.	Ideas, Institutions, and Historical Circumstances determining the Cast of the Moral Ideal		53
		II.	The Ideal		60
		III.	Effects of the Ideal upon Chinese Life and History		69
VI.	JAPANESE MORALS: AN IDEAL OF LOYALTY				77
		I.	Formative and Modifying Influences		77
		II.	The Ideal		80
		III.	Some Significant Facts in the Moral History of Japan		87
VII.	THE ETHICAL IDEALS OF INDIA				95
		PART I. THE ETHICS OF BRAHMANISM—A CLASS MORALITY			95
		I.	Historical and Speculative Basis of the System		95
		II.	The Various Moral Standards		101
		PART II. THE ETHICS OF BUDDHISM: AN IDEAL OF SELF-CONQUEST AND UNIVERSAL BENEVOLENCE			106
		I.	The Philosophical Basis of the System		106
		II.	The Ideal		110
		III.	Some Expressions of the Ethical Spirit of Buddhism		115
VIII.	THE ETHICS OF ZOROASTRIANISM: AN IDEAL OF COMBAT				123
		I.	Philosophical and Religious Ideas which created the Ethical Type		123
		II.	The Ideal		126
		III.	The Practice		131
IX.	THE MORAL EVOLUTION IN ISRAEL: AN IDEAL OF OBEDIENCE TO A REVEALED LAW				135
		I.	The Religious Basis of Hebrew Morality		135
		II.	The Evolution of the Moral Ideal		140
			1.	The Development up to the Exile	140
			2.	The Morality of the Prophets of the Exile	157
			3.	The Moral Life in the Postexilic Age	162
X.	THE MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF HELLAS: AN IDEAL OF SELF-REALIZATION				169
		I.	Institutions and Ideas determining the Moral Type		169
		II.	The Ideal		174
		III.	Limitations and Defects of the Ideal		179
		IV.	The Moral Evolution		185
XI.	ROMAN MORALS: AN IDEAL OF CIVIC DUTY				212
		I.	Institutions and Conditions of Life determining the Early Moral Type		212
		II.	The Primitive Moral Type		214
		III.	The Moral Evolution under the Republic		218
		IV.	The Moral Evolution under the Pagan Empire		231
XII.	THE ETHICS OF DOCTRINAL CHRISTIANITY: AN IDEAL OF RIGHT BELIEF				255
		I.	Religious Ideas and Theological Dogmas molding the Ideal		256
		II.	The Moral Ideal		261
XIII.	MORAL HISTORY OF THE AGE OF CHRISTIAN ASCETICISM				267
		I.	Conceptions of Life and Historical Circumstances that produced the Ascetic Ideal		267
		II.	The Ideal and its Chief Types		270
		III.	The Chief Moral Facts of the Period		272
XIV.	THE ETHICS OF ISLAM: A MARTIAL IDEAL				288
		I.	Religious Basis of the Moral System		288
		II.	The Moral Code		289
		III.	The Moral Life		293
XV.	THE MORAL LIFE OF EUROPE DURING THE AGE OF CHIVALRY				300
		I.	The Church consecrates the Martial Ideal of Knighthood		300
		II.	The Composite Ideal of Knighthood		306
		III.	The Chief Moral Phenomena of the Period		309
XVI.	RENAISSANCE ETHICS: REVIVAL OF NATURALISM IN MORALS				320
		I.	Determining Influences		320
		II.	Some Essential Facts in the Moral History of the Age		322
XVII.	ETHICS OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION				333
		I.	Principles of the Reformation of Ethical Import		333
		II.	Some Important Moral Outcomes of the Sixteenth-Century Religious Reform		334
XVIII.	THE MORAL EVOLUTION SINCE THE INCOMING OF DEMOCRACY: THE NEW SOCIAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONSCIENCE				340
		I.	Forces determining the Trend of the Ethical Movement		340
		II.	Expressions of the New Moral Consciousness in Different Domains of Life and Thought		344
			1.	The Ethics of Democracy	344
			2.	The Ethics of Industrialism	347
			3.	The Ethics of Modern Science	353
			4.	The Ethics of Theology	360
			5.	Social Ethics: the New Social Conscience	364
			6.	International Ethics: the New International Conscience	371
INDEX					383

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