The Methods of Ethics

by Henry Sidgwick

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Contents

1. Preface to the First Edition
2. Preface to the Second Edition
3. Preface to the Third Edition
4. Preface to the Fourth Edition
5. Preface to the Fifth Edition
6. Preface to the Sixth Edition
7. Prefatory Note to the Seventh Edition
8. Chapter I. Introduction
9. Chapter II. The Relation of Ethics to Politics
10. Chapter III. Ethical Judgments
11. Chapter IV. Pleasure and Desire
12. Chapter V. Free Will
13. Chapter VI. Ethical Principles and Methods
14. Chapter VII. Egoism and Self-Love
15. Chapter VIII. Intuitionism
16. Chapter IX. Good
17. Chapter I. The Principle and Method of Egoism
18. Chapter II. Empirical Hedonism
19. Chapter III. Empirical Hedonism— Continued
20. Chapter IV. Objective Hedonism and Common Sense
21. Chapter V. Happiness and Duty
22. Chapter VI. Deductive Hedonism
23. Chapter I. Intuitionism
24. Chapter II. Virtue and Duty
25. Chapter III. Wisdom and Self-Control
26. Chapter IV. Benevolence
27. Chapter V. Justice
28. Chapter VI. Laws and Promises
29. Chapter VII. The Classification of Duties—Veracity
30. Chapter VIII. Other Social Duties and Virtues
31. Chapter IX. Self-Regarding Virtues
32. Chapter X. Courage, Humility, Etc
33. Chapter XI. Review of the Morality of Common Sense
34. Chapter XII. Motives or Springs of Action Considered as Subjects of Moral Judgment
35. Chapter XIII. Philosophical Intuitionism
36. Chapter XIV. Ultimate Good
37. Chapter I. The Meaning of Utilitarianism
38. Chapter II. The Proof of Utilitarianism
39. Chapter III. Relation of Utilitarianism to the Morality of Common Sense
40. Chapter IV. The Method of Utilitarianism
41. Chapter V. The Method of Utilitarianism— Continued
42. Concluding Chapter the Mutual Relations of the Three Methods
43. Appendix the Kantian Conception of Free Will

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