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Civilization and ethics, part 2

Chapter XVI · Notes

C. T. (Charles Thomas) Campion translation

76 H. Sidgwick: The Method of Ethics (1874). (German translation by C. Bauer, 1909.)

77 Leslie Stephen: The Science of Ethics (1882).

78 S. Alexander: Moral Order and Progress: An Analysis of Ethical Conceptions (1889).

79 Wm. Wundt: Ethics: An Examination of the Facts and Law of the Moral Life (1887).

80 Friedrich Paulsen: A System of Ethics (1889).

81 Friedrich Jodl: A History of Ethics as Philosophical Science (2 vols., 2nd ed., 1906 and 1912).

82 Georg von Gizyki: Moral Philosophy, expounded so as to be intelligible to all (1888).

83 Harald Höffding (a Dane): Ethics (1887). (German translation, 1888.)

Georg Simmel (1858-1918) adopts a critical attitude towards modern “scientific” ethics in his Introduction to Moral Science (1892).

84 H. Cohen: Kant’s Foundation given to Ethics (1877); The Ethic of the Pure Will (1904).

85 W. Herrmann: Ethics (1901).

In France Charles Renouvier (1838-1903) tries, in his Science of the Moral (1869), to restore the Kantian system of ethics.

86 Jas. Martineau: Types of Ethical Theory (2 vols., 1885).

87 F. H. Bradley: Ethical Studies (1876).

88 T. H. Green: Prolegomena to Ethics (posthumous, 1883).

89 Simon Laurie: Ethica, or the Ethics of Reason (1885). (A French translation by Georges Remack, 1902.)

90 James Seth: Study of Ethical Principles (3rd ed., 1894).

91 Josiah Royce: The Spirit of Modern Philosophy (1892); Religious Aspects of Philosophy (4th ed., 1892).

92 A. Fouillée: Critique des systèmes de morale contemporaine (1883); Evolutionisme des idées-forces (1890; German translation, 1908); La morale des idées-forces (1907).

93 Jean Marie Guyau: La morale anglaise contemporaine (1879); Esquisse d’une morale sans obligation ni sanction (1885); L’irreligion de l’avenir (1886). A German version of his works appeared in 6 vols. in 1912.

94 “Toute idée enveloppe un élément impulsif; nulle idée n’est un état simplement représentatif.” (Every idea contains an element of impulse; no idea is merely a condition of re-presenting something in thought.)

95 . . . “notre conscience de nous-même tendant à sa plénitude par son expansion en autrui.” ( . . . our consciousness of ourselves, which presses on to its full growth by expanding into others.)

96 “Agis envers les autres comme si tu avais conscience des autres en même temps que de soi.”

97 Fouillée reveals his attitude towards Nietzsche in a work entitled Nietzsche and Immoralism. Notes on the works of Fouillée and Guyau have been preserved by Nietzsche.

98 Eduard von Hartmann: Philosophy of the Unconscious (1869); Phenomenology of the Moral Consciousness (1879).

99 Phenomenology, p. 670.

100 Phenomenology, p. 700.

101 Henri Bergson: Sur les données immédiates de la conscience (1888). (English translation by F. L. Pogson, 1910: Time and Freewill; An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness.) Matière et memoire. Essai sur la relation du corps et de l’esprit (1896). (English translation by N. M. Paul and W. S. Palmer: Matter and Memory, 1911.) L’énvolution créatrice (1907). (English translation by A. Mitchell: Creative Evolution, 1911.)

102 H. S. Chamberlain: The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899). (14th impression, 1922.) Immanuel Kant (1905); Goethe (1912).

103 Count Hermann Keyserling: The Structure of the World (1906); A Philosopher’s Travel-Diary (2 vols., 1919); Philosophy as Art (1920).

104 So Otto Braun in his essay “Monism and Ethics” in the volume entitled Monism Expounded in Contributions from its Representatives (edited by Arthur Drews; vol. i., 1908). The poverty of this ethic is clearly revealed when the editor tries to indicate its content.

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