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The Data of Ethics

by Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)

17 chapters, about 76,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 1,200 words
2. CONDUCT IN GENERAL. 1,200 words
3. THE EVOLUTION OF CONDUCT. 3,700 words
4. GOOD AND BAD CONDUCT. 7,100 words
5. WAYS OF JUDGING CONDUCT. 4,300 words
6. THE PHYSICAL VIEW. 2,600 words
7. THE BIOLOGICAL VIEW. 7,200 words
8. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL VIEW. 8,500 words
9. THE SOCIOLOGICAL VIEW. 4,800 words
10. CRITICISMS AND EXPLANATIONS. 6,100 words
11. THE RELATIVITY OF PAINS AND PLEASURES. 3,500 words
12. EGOISM VERSUS ALTRUISM. 2,800 words
13. ALTRUISM VERSUS EGOISM. 4,400 words
14. TRIAL AND COMPROMISE. 6,500 words
15. CONCILIATION. 4,100 words
16. ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE ETHICS. 6,000 words
17. THE SCOPE OF ETHICS. 2,300 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Aphasia
• Astronomy
• Conformity
• Egoism
• Ethics
• Ethics (journal)
• Good
• Hedonism
• Pain
• Self-preservation
• The Spectator
• Utilitarianism

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