The Ethical Kinship
Reading edition
Human Nature a Product of the Jungle
Egoism and Altruism
The Ethics of the Savage
The Ethics of the Ancient
Modern Ethics
The Ethics of Human Beings Toward Non-human Beings
The Origin of Provincialism
Universal Ethics
The Psychology of Altruism
Anthropocentric Ethics
Ethical Implications of Evolution
Conclusion
One of the wisest things ever said by one of the profoundest philosophers of all time was the warning to the seeker after truth to beware of the influence of the ‘idols (or illusions) of the tribe’ by which he meant that body of traditional prejudices which every sect, family, nation, and neighbourhood has clinging to it, and in the midst of which and at the mercy of which every human being grows up.