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(1903 A. Ethical facts. Judgment. Relation of Psychology to Ethics. Psychology Materialistic, descriptive. Character. Polarities. Jekyl and Hyde. Shelley, Milton, Dickens, Hugo, Fox. Savonarola.

Ethical Opinion on Institutionalism. Empiricalism. Equality. Moral Obligation. Superstition. Sacerdotal Conscience. Categorical Imperative. The Evolutionists. The Utilitarians. Happiness Theory, Kant. Unconditional Obligation. Absolute Truth. Dr. Adler's System.)

(1903 B. Relation of Psychology to Ethics. Spencer. The Utilitarians. Happiness Theory, Morality and the a priori. Moral End the Supreme End. Altruism. Darwin. Spencer's ideas of complexity and Synthesis not applicable to morality. Ideals of the State not realizable. Evolutionary theory in religion.)

(1903 C. Outline of Kant's thought and criticism. Its Value, The a priori. Unconditional obligation. Moral End and the spiritual end. Green's argument - criticism. Summary of Weltanschauungen. Doctrine of Elicitation. Metaphysics of organism. Infinite manifold. Worth. Personality. Freedom.)

(1903 D. Worth and uniqueness. The cardinal virtues. Organic conception and spirituality. Higher and Lower ends. Culture - Materialistic, intellectualistic. Vocations. Natural Aptitudes. Duties. Temperance. Buddism considered. Christian and modern points of view. Athleticism. Economics. Religion and Art.

Introduction to Political Ethics: Aristotle, Machiavelli, Rousseau. American politics. The state in antiquity. Greece and Rome. Vocational Representation. Public and private Morality)

(1903 E & F. Introductory. Student attitude. Few ethical teachers. Independence of Ethics as a science. Moral code. Social utility. Difficulty of ethical inquiry. Causes of error. Sketch of Course: Science of character-individual and national. Variations of judgment. Kent and the Evolutionists. The Field of Personal ethics. Paternal, Filial, and Fraternal Relations. Justice and Benevolence. Political ethics. Concept of the state. Sovereignty, Aristocracy, Democracy, Socialism.)

(1903 G. Spencer and Mill. The z priori. Happiness and complexity. Ethics of evolution. Complexity non-moral. Race preservation and happiness unsatisfactory as an end. Suicide - Why not? The Ought.)

(1903 H. Kant; morality. Kant: personal ethics. Green's system of ethics. Morality (Green). Ethical systems (Kant/Green); human society an organism.)

(1903 I. Organization. The word "spiritual". Unity and Plurality. Indispensableness, Uniqueness, Indefeasibility. The Ethical Rule: So ? and Lower nature. Applications of ethical theory - to the undeveloped, to parents and children. Friendship. Marriage. Lincoln. The preacher. Classification of duties. The Greek classification. Static and dynamic conception. Self-regarding and other regarding duties. Temperance. Asceticism. Friendship, Marriage, the Vocation.)

(1903 J. Culture-Intellectual, aesthetic, ethical. The Greek view. The practical aim. Its spiritual reaction. Its fruitfulness. Specialism. The religious teacher. Macchiavelli. Defects of the community will. Greed and ambition. Political gangsters. Subordination of public to private interest. Indifference. Party loyalty. Unreasoning political passion. Crowd psychology.)

(1903 K. The State. The National Genius. Interdependence and interaction of groups. Bluntschli and Burgess. Science and Art criticisms of life. The Teacher. What to teach? Sovereignty and political obligation. Anarchy and religious persecution. Democracy. Collective action. Obedience. Representative government. Aristotle. Roman citizenship. Feudalism. 3 Estates. The individual and the social unit. Groups ignored. Political organizations. Preponderance of lawyers.)

(1903 L. Representative government founded on social groups. Importance of leadership. Objections - inequality of representation, Encouragement of class feeling. The Upper House. The two party system. Benoist-l'etat moderne. Ostrogorski - leagues instead of parties. Vocational representation. Public and Private morality. Duties of the citizen. Casuistical questions.)

(1903-1904. Mormonism. French System of moral instruction. Fouille - Education from a National Standpoint. Ethics and Physical Science. A National system of moral instruction.)

(1904 A. Motives of Social Reform. Critique of Socialism. Stammlet (critique) Biological Society (critique) Definition of the concept Society. Order and law. Genius. Chinene, Greeks, Persians. Definition of telos - ethical end. Analogy and induction. Education of children and adults. Giddings.)

(1904 B. Organism. Uniqueness. Worth and Originality. Excellence. Unconditional obligation. Freedom and Determinism. Personal ethics: Family - Patriarchial, Democratic, ethical. Marriage - Parental and Filial Relations. School Vocation. The State. International Society. The Church.)

(1904 C. Manual Labor. Social Service Commerce and Industrial Professions. Wealth seeking. Trusteeship of wealth. Interrelationship of Functions. Sickness and suffering. Leadership - the employer. Insistence on Progress. Unions. Social Settlements.)

(1904 D. Dangers to be avoided. Force and Freedom. Slavery. The moral personality. Plato and Aristotle. Personal duties. Duty a system of relations. Dewey - "School and Society". Brotherhood.)

(1904. Marriage and the vocations. Definition of Society. Pedagogical considerations and the theory of Society. Socia1 Settlements. Giddings' princip1es of Sociology. Seligman's Economic Interpretation of history. Outcome of University Lectures.)

(1905. Modern Ethical Nihilism. Suicide. Ideals of Culture. Training of the Will. Systems of self-discipline. Various ends. Ethical End consistent with others. Syicide. The Stoic View. Kant. Plato. Christian view. Altruism. Schopenhauer. Seneca. Self-~realization. Vision of Sir LaunfaL. Meaning of spiritual. Unity and difference. Duties near and remote. Provisional and Ultimate ends.)

(1905 A. Truth. Education. Duties. Death. Pride. Self-Discipline. (Mrs. Adler's notes)

(1905 B. Student Notes)

(1905 B-1. Student Notes)

(1905 C. Unity and Difference - Synthesis Suicide. Object of existence. Temperance. Asceticism. Dwelling Houses. Greek View. Instrumental View. Art. The kinship of ethics. Truthfulness. The world of illusion. Science. Culture. Arnold. Art and morals. Culture and the laboring man. Specialization. Duties and the Will-passive and active. Fear and courage. Empirical and moral selDeath. Forgiveness.)

(1905 D. Differentials of Impetus. Ethics as a Science. Hoeffding's Elements of Psychology. Hall "Genetic Psychology". Plato's Republic. Training of the will - of the Feelings. Strength of fixed ideas. Particular faults and virtues. Self knowledge and its difficulties.)

(Introductory considerations. Freedom. Goethe's "Wilwlm Meister". Vocations: Military, Judge, Religious Teacher. Life as Work of Art. Value of Academic spirit. Freedom of the will. Social Reform - outcome of social conscience. Duality of Character. Labor and Property. Freedom of contract. Sombart's Socialism. Marx. Justice (Seligman) Introduction to second term.)

(1906 A. Social Reform and Social Conflict. War. Socialism. Brotherhood. Property. The State. The Family.)

(1906 B. Social Reform and Social Morality. Individualism. Poverty and Wealth. Socialism. The Social Ideal. Leadership. Reform Movements. Responsibility. Interconnection of Social phenomena. War. Its Causes. Its Virtues. Socialism. The Hero. Marz. Hegel. Materialism. The social organism. Agriculture and Religion. Ideals and Economic conditions. Individualism. Feudalism. Japan. Rome. Seligman criticized. Hebrew and Christian Religion. Labor Question. Laissez-Faire. Fraternity. Christian Socialism. Altruism)

(1906 C. Socialism criticized. Worth. Distinctiveness. Drudgery. Carlyle. 'Work. Hedonism. Service. Attainment of Personality. Sex. Science and Religion. Labor Question. Aristotle. Goethe. Carlyle. Vocations. Religious teacher.)

(1906 D. Property-Private, collective, State. Personal relation and Freedom. Social Institutions. Social Reform. Rights. Justice.)

(1906 E)

(1906 F)

(1906 G. Marx's Theory. Summary of course. Work and incentives. War and International Society. The nature of conflict. Corollaries of Doctrine of Labor. Steps in Civilization. Feudalism. Social Ideals. Race Frictions. Fraternity and the social motive. Are we Socialists.)

(1906 H. Manual Laborer and Employer. Slavery, Serfdom. The contract system, Reforming the personal relation. The Clergyman, the Lawyer, the Laborer. Carlyle's doctrine of work, Hero-workshop. Spirit of order. Rights of property (Paulsen). Ethics of Property. Ownership of land. Group property. Private and state property. Place of the family. Social reform. Economic justice. Force in social reform.

(Notebook)

(Functional View of the profession. Limitation of Freedom. The Religious teacher. Marriage. The Cosmic Outlook. Moral perfection and the end. End per se. Unconditional obligation. Kant's formula. The spiritual organism. Kant's Tugendlehre. Fichte's Sittenlehre, and the Idea of an Ethical Society.)

(Political Ethics, with special application to ideas of American democracy and duties of American citizenship. (also notes by Mackenzie.)

(Ethics and Morality. The State. Frazer on Kingship. The State as an organism. The nation. Nature of the State. The scholar and the republic. Political duties. Authority. Divinity of Kings. Greek states. Plato and Aristotle. Giercke - Political Theory of the Middle Ages. Hobbes - Sovereignty.)

(1907 A. Davidson on Rousseau. Hobbes and Locke. A Liberty, Equality, Representation. Kant's contract theory. Purpose of the State. Political duties. Kant's doctrine of Law. Ethical theory of the State. Use of Force. Political duties of the citizen. War.)

(1907 B. Duties of the citizen in the administration. Taxation. Theory and punishment in connection with Jury Duty. Guizot and representative government. Rousseau. Democracy. Limited Suffrage. Organic representation. Bluntschli. Church and State.)

(1907-1908 A. Aristotle. Kant. Leibnitz. Monotheism. Pluralism. Worth.)

(1908 A. Suicide. Temperance. Conflict of Duties. Justice. The Family. Vocation. Marriage.)

(1908 B. Ethics Based on the Organic Ideal.)

(1908 A-2. Lord Pryce. Foreign criticism. Political thinking in the US. Changes taking place. DeTocqueville. Finding rulers. Duty of self-activity. Representation. Sovereignty. Moral Freedom as the basis for civil and religious liberty. Criticism of certain commonplaces. Defects of American polities. Henry Adams. Jefferson Administration. Manufacturing and Agriculture. Rule of the majority.)

(1908 B-a. Justice. The common good. The good of all. The Good of Society. The Convention theory. Faults and Remedies. New Definition of Democracy. Defects of the legislature. The two party system. Calhoun. Political liberty. Liberty and equality of economic life. Equality of opportunity. The economic problem. Democracy and religion. Strikes and the Boycott. Popular self-government.)

(1908 C. DeTocqueville. Democracy. Self-interest Self-sacrifice. Wealth. Privilege. Equality Negative definition. Moral Definition Government. Actual and potential Excellence. Liberty- John Stuart Mill. Hadley Freedom and Responsibility. Moral Freedom Discipline and Law. Civil Liberty. Family, School, Vocation.)

(Student Notes. The Social Problem•. Moral and Ethical. Disagreement of Ethical Philosophers. Idea of Rightness fundamental. Ends and the Supreme end. The Golden Rule. Darwin. Plato. The Organic Principle. Elicitation. Service. Brotherhood. Buddhism. Christianity. Altruism. Egotism. The simple life. Self-discipline. Unconditional obligation. Friendship. Justice. Charity. Three-fold reverence. Worth. Socialism. Labor. Vocation.)

(Doctrine of Elicitation, The Simple Life, Justice, Three-fold Reverence, Ethics of the Vocation, Ethical Irony, Gospel of Freedom and Unfreedom.)

(1910 A. Democracy, Monarchy, Government by the people, De Tocqueville, Puritans, French & American idea of Equality.)

(1910 B. Declaration of Independence, Historical periods of American History, Individualistic & Socialistic Attitude, Washington &Lincoln, Slavery - Evolutionary view, American Concept of Liberty, Liberty &Education.)

(1910 C. American Concept of Liberty deficient, Social conception of Liberty, Justification of Force - social pressure, Humanizing of vocations &occupations, Representation t Private &Public Interest, Proportional Representation, School & Social Ideal.)

(1910-1911 A and A-1. Notes by Tsanof I. Changed Religious outlook, II The supremacy of the Ethical End. The Golden Rule, etc., III Childhood, IV Religious Training of Children. Bible Stories., V Adolescence, VI Friendship, VII Early Middle Life, III Later Middle Life; Political Life)

(1910-1911 B. Critique of Kant. Spencer, Max Mueller, Jastrow. Hebraism. Roman Religion. Kant's conception of religion. Schleiermacher's discourses. Totemism, Animism, Polytheism, Evolution. Dr. Adler's system. Fraser. Jevons. Chinese Re1igion. Middhism. Brahmanism. Mormonism. Argument from design. Socrates. Hebrew, Christian and Ethical religions.)

(Continued. 1910-1911 C. Protestantism a dying Faith. Syndicalism in France. Definitions of Religion. Kant. Schleiermacher. Tolstoi. Jevons, Fraser. Pantheism. The Stoics. Spinoza. Immortality. Hebrew Religion. Christianity. Ethical Religion. Emerson. Buddhism. Persian Religion. Mohammedanism.)

(1911 A. Need for Moral Education. Common Fund of moral belief- Cleanliness, order, self control (anger, vanity pride), truthfulness, gratitude, respect for property. Moral Education in France, England, America. No common consensus in any given society. Democracy as the object. Worth- moral end inclusive. Moral teaching as national self-preservation. Successive periods of life. The supreme end. Golden rule. Vertical and horizontal conception. Worth and Value. Organism. Law and Liberty.)

(Continued. 1911 B. Authority. 3-fold reverence. Contingent and necessary relations. Childhood. N.T. stories. Adolescence. Kant's formula. Sameness and difference. Apprenticeship. Friendship. Emerson. Pythagoras. Patriotism. Stoicism. Religion. Doubts. Sin, conversion. The Infinite End per se. Middle Life. Mental and moral defects. Marriage. Vocations. Mastership. Abdication. The last outlook.)

(1911 C. Notes dictated to Mrs. Adler same as A and B)

(1911 D. Socrates. Diogenes. Antisthenes. Plato- "The Republic". Pythagoras. The organic conception.)

(Socialism. Meliorism. Vocationalism. Stirner, Proudhon, Nietzsche. Kelly (socialism), Stoicism, Cynicism, Anarchism. Bakhounin, Hillquit, Kautzsky, Tolstoi, Von Humboldt. Princep Kropotkin. Law and Liberty. Bernstein (Evolutionary Socialism) Economic interpretation of history. Brotherhood. Mechanization of life. Woman's relation to the ascent of society. Duties and rights. Science, Invention. Spiritual Principle of Social Reform. Education. Personality and the church.)

(1911-1912 A. Mrs. Adler's Notes. Alos papers by three students - McMackin, Coldstein, and one anon.)

(Continued. 1912 E. Systematic ethics. Artist's point of view. Aristotle. The Stoics. Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus. Epicurus. Hume and Kant. Freedom and Necessity. Critique of pure reason. The empirical character. The moral, law. The selEthical end empirica1 manifold. End per se. The telic concept.)

(1912-1913 A. The moral end supreme. The intellectual end, the aesthetic end. Methods of physical science not applicable to ethics. The metaphysical approach. United and multiplicity. Moral Fallacies. Kant's Formula. Universality and Necessity. What is a moral act. Worth as a constituent of ultimate reality. End implies organism. The spiritual manifold. Individuality and Personality. Doctrine of sin. The Problem of suffering.)

(1913 A. Transcendence as against supernaturalism. Eternal Life and the Divine. Doctrine of Sin. Bergson. Kant's categories. Additional notes on perfection. Substance. Causality, Reciprocity. Organic idea and freedom of the will. Freedom and determinism. The Noumenon. Functional finalities. Uniqueness.)

(Continued. 1913 B. The unique personality. Finding the infinite nature in another. Definition - Matter and spirit. Relation of the organic principle to the virtues - May 1, notes of Gertrude Bussey. Applications - Sickness, suffering, bereavement and holiness experience. Rationalizing the infinite. Science. Darwinism. The general rule. Worth. Plus and minus qualities and virtue. Christianity and socialism.)

(1913 C. Weakness of evolutionary theory. Service to others. Sympathy. Christian irony. Charity. Means and ends. The family model criticized. Pursuit of wealth. Absolute right and the moral law. Spencer. Evolutionary ethics. The problem of evil.)

(1914 A & B. A. Kant. Worth. Buddhism. Emerson. Stoicism. Social justice. Plato, Aristotle, Mill. Equality, Fraternity, Wealth, Marriage, National types. International Peace. B. Kant and the Ontological Argument of Anselmus. Funcationalities instead of innate ideas. Synthesis. Ethical manifold. End per se. Unity and Diversity. Ethical Verification. Sickness, Bereavement, Pain. New Approach to Commandments. Positive definition of spirit. Christian and Hebrew morality.)

(1914 C. (Also Notes by Mr. O'Dell. Moore's ethics and Principia. Value and Worth. Pursuit of pleasure no obligation. End per se. The content of the ethical ideal. Two notions of finality. St. Jerome. Concept of necessity a vinculum. Kant and end per se. Categories of moral opinion and Practice. New content of moral experience. Progress. Theory of assonances. The moral Ought, the logical ought. Moral vestigia. Christian ideal. St. Francis. Tolstoi. Thomas a Kempis. Moral history reviewed. Three steps. Patria potestas etc. The main ethical problem. Criticism of Nietzsche.)

(1914-1915 A. Nationalism-Psychological factors. Selfishness. Individual and national justice. Holiness experience and parasitism. Doctrine of substance. The sublime experiences. Divorce.)

(1914-1915 B. The family and its prime importance as the prime ethical unit. Ethics of Family. The vocation. Ethical program of social reform. International relations or the concept of humanity. The empirical scheme. Straits in which the human race finds itselIndividual and national justice Germany and its evolution (Lichtenberger). )

(1914-1915 C.)

(Aristotle. Problem of Democracy - Impeachment of - Vindication oGerman and English systems. Rousseau - Social Contract. Mill. Hobson's "Imperialism" Representation in national life. Results of American democracy. American type. Individual equality. Democratical ideal of liberty. How to inculcate Americanism in the young.)

(The Ethics of Aristotle And Kant)

(1917 A. Aristotle and Plato. Kant- Categorical Imperative and Capital Punishment. Precursors of Aristotle. Socrates. Doctrine of the Mean. Hume's skepsis. Aristotle's Ethics.)

(1917 B. By Winston, Jacobs, Neff, Wilson.)

(The War situation (Butler and Lafollette) The problem of Aristotle, Plato, Christianity, Buddha , Our prob1em - Worth, Personality, etc. Extra beliefs vs. Ethical Experience. Freedom of speech in University and Church. Attitude toward Germany discussed. Mill's Utilitarianism. Ethics distinguished from morals. "Loyalty" -Royce, James- Moral Equivalents of War. The Pragmatic position. Dewey and 'Tufts "Moral Theory". National Unity. Interdependence and spiritual, universe. Origen and origin of evil. Types of evil.)

(Leibnitz. Evils listed. Three attributes: agnostic, theological, ethical. Notes on Origen. St. Augustine. Natural and Moral Ends. The spiritual ideal. Evolution. Perfection. The ontological argument. The idea of organism. The ethical experience. The spiritual relation. Sympathy. Sickness, bereavement, oppression, sin. Irremediable evils. Freedom of will. Transcendental derivation. Student's Notes - Gutmann, Randall, Rosenbaum, Wikander. )

(Three impulses at work in the war. Cole's book and Henderson's program. Transformation of attitude required. Anger and hate. Criticism of Bridges. League of nations. Right of secession. National self-determination. Treitschke. Hegel. Aristotle's conception of Freedom. St. Augustine. Rousseau. Campbell's "Greek Religion". The State in "The Ethical Philosophy of Life.")

(Remuneration of services. Schmoller. The church and the labor question. Relation of the State to economic progress.)

(Socialism. (Ethics of Renumeration. Organization of Industries. "Das Kapital.") )

(Doctrine of the soul., Does the world owe you a living? Economic justice. Equality of opportunity. Ethical ideal. Ethical theory. Ethics. Ethics - Notes. Henry Adams. Incongruities or paradoxes in human existence, Justice. Memoranda for University lectures. Newark boycott. Originality and discipleship. Political liberty. Popular self-government. Property. Relations of manufacturing and agriculture. Representation. Rights of the individual. The social sense. Sovereignty. Spiritual ideal. Spinoza. Unitary personality. The witness to moral personality in recovery from sin. Worth vs: value. The wounded self-consciousness of the wealthy.)

(Philosophy Club. Meetings of the Philosophical Club, 1901, 1915, 1917, 1924 Notes for the Philosophy Club: the meaning of culture.)

(English Club. Notes for a talk: The technique of expression in English.)

(Teachers College Lecture)

(For Oxford Lectures on Culture, see 602, 1-4)