| Description |
xi, 290 p. 22 cm. |
| Note |
Printed in Great Britain. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: p. 287-290. |
| Contents |
Little essays on human nature: Spirit the judge. The origin of morals. Ideals. Intellectual ambition. The suppressed madness of sane men. The birth of reason. The difference reason makes. Body and mind. The self. Self-consciousness, vanity, and fame. False moral perspectives. Pain. What people will put up with. Advantage of a long childhood. The transitive force of knowledge. Knowledge of nature is symbolic. Relativity of science. Mathematics and morals. Mind-reading. Knowledge of character. Comradeship. Love.--Little essays on religion: Imaginative nature of religion. Prosaic misunderstandings. The haste to believe. Pathetic notions of God. Greek religion. Original Christian faith. The convert. Christian doctrine a moral allegory. The Christian epic. Pagan custom infused into Christianity. Christ and the virgin. Orthodoxy and heresy. Protestantism. Piety. Spirituality. Prayer. The fear of death. Psychic phenomena. A future life. Disinterested interest in life. Platonic love. Ideal immortality.--Little essays on art and poetry: Justification of art. The place of art in moral economy. Rareness of aesthetic feeling. Art and happiness. Utility and beauty. Glimpses of perfection. Little essays on materialism and morals: Moral neutrality of materialism. Value irrational. Emotions of the materialist. Sadness of naturalism. Happiness in disillusion. The true place of materialism. Intuitive morality. Relativity of values. Authority of reason in morals. Pleasure ingenuous. The lower senses. Pleasure and conscience. The worth of pleasures and pains. The voluptuary and the worldling. Moral war. Origin of tyranny. War. Patriotism. Industrial idealism. Collectivism. Christian morality. Supernaturalism. Post-rational morality. The need of discipline. Happiness. Detachment. The profit of living. Beauty a hint of happiness. |
| Subject |
Philosophy.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Logan Pearsall, 1865-1946
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