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CHAPTER VI
ETHICS
INTRODUCTION : Difficulties of the moral problem as presented in the nineteenth century—Recognised as a social problem— Influence of Comte important in this connection—Other influences—Christianity—Kant—The practical reason.
- Taine and Renan—Renan's critique of Christian morality— Early socialistic views—Change in his later life—Prefers criterion of beauty to that of goodness.
- Renouvier the great moralist of our period—Relation to Kant —His Science de la Morale—Personality in Ethics—Justice.
- Fouillée, Guyau, Ollé-Laprune and Rauh pass further from the Kantian rigorism to an ethic in harmony with the philosophy of idées-forces of life and action—Humanitarianism of Fouillée and Guyau—Idées-forces and Morale sans Obligation ni Sanction —Rauh's doctrines—Other thinkers.
CONCLUSION: Action and belief—Ethics and Religion.
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