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The meaning of right and wrong
- Title
- The meaning of right and wrong / by Richard C. Cabot ...
- Author
- Cabot, Richard C. (Richard Clarke), 1868-1939
- Publication
- New York : The Macmillan Company, ©1936.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | 6307.231.2 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii pages, 1 leaf, 469 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- A. PRINCIPLES. I. Right: Agreements ; Agreements and desires ; Needs ; Revealing of needs ; Growth-The authoritative need ; Growth and time-consciousness ; Growth, its logical basis and is motive -- II. Wrong: Five familiar tricks of self-deceit ; Other devices of self-deceit ; Recklessness ; Analysis of self-deceit -- B. APPLICATIONS. Honesty ; Keeping and breaking agreements ; Validity of customary and legal agreements ; Interpretation of agreements ; Due care ; Some conjugate principles in ethics ; Ethical security and ethical reform -- C. IMPLEMENTATION. Need of teeth in ethical laws: the weakness of ordering and forbidding, rewarding and punishing ; Ethical brakes and tractors ; Clearing the deck for action -- D. SUPERMORALS. Heroism, enthusiasm, and creative work -- APPENDICES. Some unsolved problems of ethics ; Dislocated fragments of ethical theory ; Definitions ; Fifth-four declarations of war, 1914-1918.
- LCCN
- 36009648
- OCLC
- ocm03056255
- 3056255
- SCSB-704652
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library