Lectures on ethics

Proem

The ethical systems of the ancients

The general principle of morality

De obligatione activa et passiva

Moral compulsion

Practical necessitation

Laws

The supreme principle or morality

De littera legis

The lawgiver

Reward and punishment

De imputatione

Responsibility for consequences of actions

Grounds of imputatio moralis

Imputatio facti

Degrees of responsibility

Introductory observations

Natural religion

Errors in religion

Unbelief

Trust in God and the concept of faith

Prayer

De culto externo

Example and pattern in religion

Stumbling blocks

Devoutness and the feeling of shame

Confession of faith : its limitations and conditions

Duties to oneself

Proper self respect

Conscience

Self love

Self mastery

Duties towars the body in regard to life

Suicide

Care for one's life

Duties torwards the body itself

Occupation

Shortening time

Duties towards the body in respect of sexual impulse

Crimina carnis

Duties towards ourselves in respect for external circumstances

Wealth

The attachment of the mind to wealth (greed and avarice)

Thrift

The two impulses of our nature and their concomitant duties

Duties towards others

Friendship

Enmity

Duties dictated by justice

Equity

Innocence

Injury

Vengeance

The slanderer

Jealousy and its offspring

envy and grudge

Ethical duties towards others : truthfulness

Poverty and charity

Social virtues

Haughtiness

Scoffing

Duties towards animals and spirits

Duties towards inanimate objects

Duties towards particular classes of human beings

Duties of the virtuous and the vicious

The ultimate destiny of the human race.