Δόξειε δ ̓ ἂν ἴσως βέλτιον εἶναι καὶ δεῖν ἐπὶ σωτηρία γε τῆς ἀληθείας καὶ τὰ οἰκεῖα ἀναιρεῖν, ἄλλως τε καὶ φιλοσόφους ὄντας· ἀμφοῖν γὰρ ὄντοιν φίλοιν ὅσιον προτιμᾶν τὴν ἀλήθειαν. ARISTOTLE: Eth. Nic., I. 4. AND THE ETHICS OF EVOLUTION. A CRITICAL STUDY BY J. GOULD SCHURMAN M.A. (LOND.), D. Sc. (EDIN.), LLD (Edin) PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS IN ACADIA COLLEGE, President of Cornell University usa. 14, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON; 1881. PREFACE. B2799 THE following Essay, which is now published by the Hibbert Trustees, was written in Germany about a year ago, during the author's tenure of a Hibbert Travelling Scholarship. The Essay is a critical study of the two representative systems of Ethics, with one or other of which the names of most thinkers in England and America are at present associated. Mill and Hamilton, the philosophical leaders of the last generation, have chiefly a historical interest for ours; and the undying dualism of metaphysical thought is propagated in Critical Idealism and Evolutionistic Realism. Kant laid the foundations of the one, just a hundred years ago; Mr. Herbert Spencer, in our own day, has laid the foundations of the other. The present Essay attempts an estimate of the ethical philosophy of each of these teachers. The author has not assumed the infallibility of either system, and then proceeded to refute the other from this dogmatic standpoint he has, on the contrary, made an honest M829035 |