Morals a Treatise on the Psycho-Sociological Bases of Ethics (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Morals a Treatise on the Psycho-Sociological Bases of Ethics (Classic Reprint) written by Professor G. L. Duprat and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Morals a Treatise on the Psycho-Sociological Bases of Ethics In the near future it will, no doubt, be a matter of surprise that men were so pretentious as to teach morals, and to direct the most complex of all activities, without having made, as a preliminary, a sufficiently exhaustive study of man and of society. We shall be amazed at the subjectivity of moral conceptions, even while we remember that they were the work of the greatest minds of every age; at assertions based on incomplete and even in accurate notions of individual and social life; at precepts of value to the individual alone, enunciated by him for the purpose of justifying his manner of life, systematised after the event, when prejudices and preconceived ideas have had their natural effect on a mind which then offers itself, more or less unconsciously, as a model to its contemporaries and their descendants! Plato, with his aristocratic and Athenian tastes Aristotle, saturated with intellectualism - Descartes, oscillating between science and religion - Spinoza, a fatalist and mystic, - each in turn has described the moral ideal according to his own temperament and personal tendencies, and this they have done in almost complete self-absorption, as if assured that all other mortals were fashioned like unto them. 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.