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Tables of Contents for Moral Phenomena
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Transaction Introduction
v
Editor's Introduction
3
6
Translator's Preface
9
6
Foreword
15
12
Introduction
27
1
The First Fundamental Question
27
2
The Creative Power in Man
29
3
The Meaning of ``Practical'' in Philosophy
32
2
The Valuational Wealth of the Real and Participation Therein
34
2
The Second Fundamental Question
36
3
The Valuational Constituents of Persons and Situations
39
2
Passing by on the Other Side
41
3
The Modern Man
44
5
PART I THE STRUCTURE OF THE ETHICAL PHENOMENON (Phenomenology of Morals)
SECTION I CONTEMPLATIVE AND NORMATIVE ETHICS
The Competency of Practical Philosophy
49
5
Moral Commandments, the General Type, their Claim to Acceptation
49
2
Ethical Relativism
51
1
Ethical Absolutism
52
2
Can Virtue Be Taught?
54
8
The Proposition of Socrates
54
1
The Christian Conception of ``Sin''
55
1
Schopenhauer's Purely Theoretical Ethics
56
2
Plato's Meno and the Solution of the Difficulty
58
4
The Right Meaning of The Normative
62
11
The Indirectly Normative
62
2
The Visible Field and the Idea of Ethics
64
1
Ethics and Pedagogy
65
1
Theoretical and Ethical Apriorism
66
7
SECTION II THE PLURALITY OF MORALS AND UNITY OF ETHICS
Multiplicity and Unity in Moral Consciousness
73
8
The Historical Multiplicity of Moral Commandments
73
1
Current Morality and Pure Ethics
74
3
Further Dimensions of the Manifold
77
1
The Unity Sought For and the Investigation of Values
78
3
The Knowledge of Good And Evil
81
6
Commandments, Ends and Values
81
1
The Myth of the Tree of Knowledge
82
2
Nietzsche's Discovery and the Discoverer's Error
84
3
The Pathway to The Discovery of Values
87
18
Revolution of the Ethos and the Narrowness of the Sense of Value
87
2
The Champion of Ideas and the Crowd
89
4
Backward - looking and Forward - looking Ethics
93
2
Theoretical and Ethical Investigation of Principles
95
3
Categories and Values, Laws and Commandments
98
1
Ethical Actuality and the Fact of the Primary Consciousness of Value
99
3
The Possibility of Illusion and of a Spurious Moral Consciousness
102
3
The Various Domains of the Moral Phenomenon
105
14
The Scope of the Given in the Investigation of Values
105
2
Law and Ethics
107
3
Religion and Mythology
110
2
Psychology, Pedagogy, Politics, History, Art and Artistic Education
112
7
SECTION III FALSE METHODS OF PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS
Egoism and Altruism
119
12
Self-Preservation and Self-Assertion
119
1
The Truth and Falsehood of the Egoistic Theory
120
2
The Metaphsic of Altruism
122
3
Self-Appraisement through the Appraisement of Others
125
2
The Fundamental Relationship of ``I'' and ``Thou,'' their Conflict and Value
127
4
Eudaemonism and Utilitarianism
131
9
Aristippus and Epicurus
131
2
The Stoic View
133
1
Christianity and Neo-Platonism
134
3
The Social Eudaemonism of Modern Times
137
3
Criticism and the Ethical Significance of Eudæmonism
140
15
The Natural Limit of Utilitarianism
140
1
The Right and the Limit of the Ethics of Consequences
141
2
The Reappearance of Suppressed Values
143
1
The Valuational Illusion in Social Eudaemonism and its Danger
144
2
The Inherent Value of Happiness and its Relation to the Moral Values Proper
146
3
Striving for Happiness and Capacity for Happiness
149
6
SECTION IV THE KANTIAN ETHICS
The Subjectivism of the Practical Reason
155
11
Kant's Doctrine of the ``Subjective'' Origin of the Ought
155
3
Transcendental Subjectivism and the Freedom of the Will
158
2
The Kantian Alternative
160
1
The False Inference in the Kantian Apriorism
161
5
Critique of Formalism
166
5
The Meaning of the ``Formal'' in the Categorical Imperative
166
1
The Historical Prejudice in Favour of ``Form''
167
2
Formalism and Apriorism
169
2
Critique of Intellectualism
171
12
Intellectualism and Apriorism
171
1
Sense-Perception, Objectivity and Aposteriority
172
2
Thought, Understanding and Apriority
174
2
The Emotional Apriorism of the Sense of Value
176
3
The Idea of a ``Material Ethics of Values''
179
4
SECTION V THE ESSENCE OF ETHICAL VALUES
Values As Essences
183
23
Preliminary Consideration of Essence
183
3
Goods and their Values
186
3
Valuational Apriority and Absoluteness
189
3
Will, End and the Moral Judgment of Values
192
2
Example and Imitation
194
3
Ethical Idealization and Valuational Consciousness
197
1
Accountability, Responsibility, and the Consciousness of Guilt
198
2
Conscience and the Ethical a Priori
200
2
The Ancient Concept of Virtue as a Concrete Concept of Value
202
4
The Relativity and Absoluteness of Values
206
11
Subjectivity and Relativity
206
1
The Relativity of Goods to the Subject and the Relational Structure of Concrete Values
207
3
The Absoluteness of Moral Values and the Relativity of the Dependent Values of Gods
210
2
The Material Relation of Moral Values to Persons as Objects
212
1
The Material Relation of Moral Values to the Person as a Subject
213
2
The Interpenetration of Relations and the Underlying Absoluteness of Moral Values
215
2
The Ideal Self-Existence of Values
217
15
The Self-Existence of Values for Knowledge
217
2
Ethical Reality and the Ethical Ideal Sphere
219
3
Ideal Self-Existence in General
222
3
The Ethico-Ideal Self-Existence of Values
225
1
Valuational Delusion and Blindness
226
3
The Transference of Attention and the Limits of Valuational Knowledge
229
3
Values as Principles
232
15
Relation of Values to Reality
232
2
Values as Principles of the Ideal Ethical Sphere
234
2
Values as Principles of the Actual Ethical Sphere
236
3
Values as Principles of the Real Ethical Sphere
239
2
Teleological Metaphysics and the Ethical Phenomenon of Values
241
6
SECTION VI THE ESSENCE OF THE OUGHT
The Relation of Value and the Ought
247
8
The Ideal Ought-to-be
247
2
The Positive Ought-to-Be
249
2
Range of Tension, Degree of Actuality and the Ethical Dimensions of the Ought-to-Be
251
2
Plurality of Dimensions and Variety of Values
253
2
Position of the Ought Towards the Subject
255
16
The Pole of the Ought-to-Be in Real Existence
255
1
The Role of the Subject in the Metaphysic of the Ought
256
3
Ought-to-Be and Ought-to-Do, the Metaphysical Weakness of the Principle and the Strength of the Subject
259
3
Value and End, the Ought and the Will
262
1
The Appearance of Subjectivity in the Ought and the Axiological Determinanation
263
3
Subject and Person
266
2
Personality Conditioned by Value and the Ought
268
3
The Ought and the Finalistic Nexus
271
12
Categorial Analysis of Value and the Ought
271
2
Primary and Secondary Determination
273
1
The Finalistic Nexus as a Threefold Process
274
3
Forward and Backward Determination in the Finalistic Nexus
277
1
Duplication and Identity of the End
278
3
Man's Providence and Predestination
281
2
The Teleology of Values and the Metaphysic of Man
283
14
Teleology, Natural and Cosmic
283
2
Philosophical Anthropomorphism and the Primacy of Axiological Determination
285
2
The Nullification of Man and the Inversion of the Fundamental Law of Categories
287
3
Ethics and Ontology, Man and Nature
290
3
Human Teleology and ``Chance''
293
4
SECTION VII METAPHYSICAL PERSPECTIVES
Teleological Action and Reaction
297
6
The Interlacing of Causality and Finality
297
1
The Community of Convergent and Divergent Purposes
298
1
Purposive Contradictions and Valuational Conflicts
299
4
The Modal Structure of the Ought
303
14
The Problem of Modality in the Nature of Value and the Ought
303
2
Ontological Necessity and Actuality
305
2
The Abrogation of the Equipoise of Possibility and Necessity in the Positive Ought-to-Be
307
1
The Modality of the Ideal Ought-to-Be and of the Self-Existence of Values
308
3
The Difficulties of Free Necessity
311
3
Freedom, Actualization and Possibility
314
3
The Metaphysics of Personality
317
15
Personalistic Metaphysics
317
2
Scheler's Doctrine of Person and Act
319
2
Acts and Persons as Objects
321
2
Personality and Subjectivity, ``I'' and ``Thou''
323
4
Person and World
327
5
Metaphysical Personalism
332
13
The Idea of the World and the Idea of God
332
2
The Individual Person and the Communal Person
334
2
``Persons of a Higher Order'' and the Consciousness of such an Order
336
3
Ascending Orders of Corporate Bodies and Descending Orders of Personality
339
2
Ethics and Theology
341
4
Index
345
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