TY - GEN TI - Writers on ethics : : classicals and contemporary classicals and contemporary U1 - 170 PY - 1962/// CY - London : PB - D Van Nostrand KW - Ethics N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Part I: Differing conceptions of the good • Peace of mind • Salvation • Duty • Pleasure • Realization of human potentiality • Creativity Part II: Determinism and responsibility • Paul Edwards, Hard and soft determinism • John Hospers, what means this freedom • C. Arthur Campbell, In Defence of free will • H.L.A. Hart, Legal responsibility and excuses Part III: Political and social dimensions of ethics • Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan • John Stuart Mill, On liberty • Francis H. Bradley, My station and its duties • Franz Neumann, The concept of political freedom • Robert K. Merton, Social structure and Anomie • Erich Fromm, Selfishness and self love Part IV: Moral judgement: principles and methods • Philosophical questioning of uncritical assumptions • Divine authority • Self evidence • The indefinability of God • From emotivism to good reasons • Value and interest • Scientific method • Normative conceptions in psychology • Motivation and value • existentialism ER -