HANDBOOK OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY BY HENRY CALDERWOOD, LL.D. PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. FIFTH EDITION London MACMILLAN & CO. 03-6-39 J.A. gt-wenley Sib 3-2-39 PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. THE issue of a fourth edition affords an opportunity for making some additions which may be of service to the student. In the opening part of the Appendix will be found a brief defence of the position that 'Conscience, regarded as an Intuitive Faculty, must be held to be above education. The second and more extended portion of the Appendix contains an outline of works bearing upon the study of Ethics, which have appeared in our country since the first publication of this Handbook. H. C. UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. THE present work has been prepared mainly with the view of meeting the wants of University Students. Two works of similar character were available, The Outlines of Moral Philosophy, by Dugald Stewart, whose name shed lustre over this University, published in its final form in 1808; and A Manual of Moral Philosophy by Professor Fleming of Glasgow, published in 1860. Both of these are text-books of high value. As, however, a want has been felt, and pressed upon my attention, for a book dealing with the subject in view of more recent discussions, I have here attempted to meet the demand. My aims have been to present the chief problems of Ethical Science; to give an outline of discussion under each, allowing fundamental questions greatest prominence; and to afford a guide for private study by references to the Literature of the Science. In order to secure space for discussion of the more important problems, details have been omitted such as may be found in the histories of philosophy more commonly in the possession of students. |