Lectures on the Ethics of T. H. Green, Mr Herbert Spencer, and J. Martineau

Preface; Lectures on Green's Ethics: 1. Green's metaphysical basis; 2. Green's view of freedom, and of desire, intellect, and volition; 3. Green's view of moral (including immoral) action; 4. Green's view of the good will, and true good; 5. Green's account of the moral ideal; 6. Green's view of Greek ethics; 7. Green's treatment of hedonism; 8. Green's treatment of hedonism (continued); Lectures on Mr. Spencer's Ethics: 1. Chapters I and II of Data of Ethics (Part I of The Principles of Ethics); 2. Data of Ethics - chapters III, IV, and X; 3. Data of Ethics - chapters V to VIII; 4. Data of Ethics - chapters XI to XVI, and chapter VIII; 5. Data of Ethics - chapters XV, XVI, and VIII; 6. The Inductions of Ethics (Part II of The Principles of Ethics); 7. The Ethics of Individual Life (Part III of The Principles of Ethics); 8. The Ethics of Social Life - Justice (Part IV of The Principles of Ethics) chapters I to VIII; 9. The Ethics of Social Life - Justice - chapter IX to end of Part IV; 10. Negative Beneficence and Positive Beneficence (Parts V and VI of The Principles of Ethics); Lectures on Martineau's Ethics: 1. Introduction; 2. Fundamental ethical fact; 3. Theory of prudence, merit and demerit, nature of moral authority; 4. Springs of action.