a datum, and is
carried by a feeling.--It demands conventional expression.--A fable
about matter and form Pages 167-186

CHAPTER VII

DIALECTIC

Dialectic elaborates given forms.--Forms are abstracted from existence
by intent.--Confusion comes of imperfect abstraction, or ambiguous
intent.--The fact that mathematics applies to existence is
empirical.--Its moral value is therefore contingent.--Quantity submits
easily to dialectical treatment--Constancy and progress in
intent.--Intent determines the functional essence of objects.--Also the
scope of ideals.--Double status of mathematics.--Practical role of
dialectic.--Hegel's satire on dialectic.--Dialectic expresses a given
intent.--Its empire is ideal and autonomous Pages 187-209

CHAPTER VIII

PRERATIONAL MORALITY

Empirical alloy in dialectic.--Arrested rationality in morals.--Its
emotional and practical power.--Moral science is an application of
dialectic, not a part of anthropology.--Estimation the soul of
philosophy.--Moral discriminations are natural and inevitable.--A choice
of proverbs.--Their various representative value.--Conflict of partial
moralities.--The Greek ideal.--Imaginative exuberance and political
discipline.--Sterility of Greek example.--Prerational morality among the
Jews.--The development of conscience.--Need of Hebraic devotion to Greek
aims.--Prerational morality marks an acquisition but offers no programme
Pages 210-232

CHAPTER IX

RATIONAL ETHICS

Moral passions represent private interests.--Common ideal interests may
supervene.--To this extent there is rational society.--A rational
morality not attainable, but its principle clear.--It is the logic of an
autonomous will.--Socrates' science.--Its opposition to sophistry and
moral anarchy.--Its vitality.--Genuine altruism is natural
self-expression.--Reason expresses impulses, but impulses reduced to
harmony.--Self-love artificial.--The sanction of reason is
happiness.--Moral science impeded by its chaotic data, and its
unrecognised scope.--Fallacy in democratic hedonism.--Sympathy a
conditional duty.--All life, and hence right life, finite and
particular. Pages 233-261

CHAPTER X

POST-RATIONAL MORALITY

Socratic ethics retrospective.--Rise of disillusioned moralities.--The
illusion subsisting in them.--Epicurean refuge in pleasure.--Stoic
recourse to conformity.--Conformity the core of Islam, enveloped in
arbitrary doctrines.--The latter alone lend it practical for