W. R. Sorley

PREFATORY NOTE.

CHAPTER I. ETHICS AND ITS PROBLEMS.

CHAPTER II. EGOISM.

CHAPTER III. THE TRANSITION TO UTILITARIANISM.

CHAPTER IV. MORAL SENTIMENT.

CHAPTER V. THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORALITY.

CHAPTER VI. EVOLUTION AND ETHICAL THEORIES.

CHAPTER VII. HEDONISM AND EVOLUTIONISM.

CHAPTER VIII. THE EVOLUTIONIST END.

CHAPTER IX. ON THE BASIS OF ETHICS.

Transcriber's Note:

A catalog of publications was included at the end of the text.

Where words occur in Greek script, (~transliterations~) have been added.

Shaw Fellowship Lectures, 1884

ON THE
ETHICS OF NATURALISM

BY
W. R. SORLEY, M.A.

FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; AND EXAMINER IN
PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
MDCCCLXXXV

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