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Excerpt from Ethics: An Introductory Manual for the Use of University Students The object of the following pages is to give a sketch of ethical theory designed in the main on the customary English lines as laid down in the regulations of the University of London. At the same time I have not bound myself slavishly to follow those lines, but have introduced discussions on the speculations of the so-called Evolutionary school of Mr. Spencer and Mr. Leslie Stephen, and the Oxford neo-Hegelian school founded by the late T.H. Green. This course, though adding somewhat to the difficulty of the book, seems justifiable by the additional interest given to the subject. I have also ventured to suggest a revival of a more aesthetic attitude in dealing with Ethics, something more akin, as I take it, to that assumed by the Greek thinkers, from whom the science of conduct takes its origin. In chapter i. I discuss the general scope and method of the science, in chapters ii. and iii. the principal concepts of the science are dealt with, viz. Good and Eight and their dependent categories. In chapters iv. and v.the various Hedonistic and anti-Hedonistic theories are explained and criticised. 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.