THE METHODS OF ETHICS by HENRY SIDGWICK, Originally published in 1884. PREFACE: TO THE FIRST EDITION. IN offering to the public a new book upon a subject so trite as Ethics, it seems desirable to indicate clearly at the outset its plan and purpose. Its distinctive characteristics may be first given negatively. It is not, in the main, metaphysical or psychological at the same time it is not dogmatic or directly practical it does not deal, except by way of illustration, with the history of ethical thought in a sense it might be said to be not even critical, since it is only quite incidentally...
THE METHODS OF ETHICS by HENRY SIDGWICK, Originally published in 1884. PREFACE: TO THE FIRST EDITION. IN offering to the public a new book upon a subj...
