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- Preface
- Part I: Royce’s Early Ethical Theory
- 1. The Problem of Ethical Theory
- 1. Ethical Realism and Ethical Idealism
- 2. Royce’s Criticisms of Other Ethical Theories
- a. Greek Ethics
- b. Christian Ethics
- c. “Moral Sense” Theories
- d. Evolutionist Ethics
- e. Ethical Theory Founded on Pity or Sympathy
- f. Hedonism
- 3. Ethical Skepticism
- 2. Royce’s Early Solution
- 1. The Principle of Harmony
- 2. Moral Insight
- 3. The “Spray of Aims”
- 4. Moral Obligation
- 5. Clarification and Appraisal
- 1. The Problem of Ethical Theory
- Part II: Psychological and Epistemological Presuppositions of Royce’s Later Ethical Theory
- 3. Imitation
- 1. Imitation and Learning
- 2. The Nature and Scope of Imitation
- 3. Imitation and the Moral Life
- 4. Reflection
- 1. The Origins of Self-Consciousness
- 2. The Notion of Self
- 3. The Freedom and Responsibility of the Self
- 4. Other Minds
- 5. Reflection and the Moral Life
- 5. Interpretation
- 1. The Need for Interpretation
- 2. The Nature and Structure of Interpretation
- 3. Interpretation in the Quest for Selfhood
- 4. Interpretation in Interpersonal Communication
- 5. Interpretation in the Determination of Publicly Accessible Objects of Experience
- 6. Interpretation and the Moral Life
- 3. Imitation
- Part III: The Structure of Royce’s Mature Ethical Theory
- 6. The Moral Attitude
- 1. Precriticai Value Predication
- 2. The Moral Attitude
- 3. Procedural Moral Principles
- a. Reasonableness
- b. Impartiality
- c. Respect for Persons
- d. Harmony
- 4. The Problem of Justification
- 5. Appraisal
- 7. Self-Realization
- 1. Self-Realization and Value
- a. The Locus of Value
- b. A Criterion of Value
- c. Some Objections Considered
- 2. Self-Realization and Obligation
- a. Moral Deliberation
- b. Interpersonal Moral Judgment
- c. The Nature and Ground of Obligation
- 1. Self-Realization and Value
- 8. Loyalty and the Community
- 1. Loyalty
- a. The Need for Loyalty
- b. The Essential Characteristics of a Cause
- c. Loyalty as an Intrinsic Good
- d. My Cause as Practical Determinant of My Duty
- e. Summary
- 2. Loyalty to Loyalty
- a. The Need for a Criterion of Worthy Causes
- b. The Criterion Applied
- c. Loyalty and Interpersonal Moral Judgment
- d. Loyalty as a Moral Code
- e. Evaluation
- 3. The Community of Interpretation
- a. The Need for Community
- b. The Criteria of a Genuine Community
- c. The Unlimited Community of Interpretation as the Ideal Social Cause
- d. Evaluation
- 1. Loyalty
- 6. The Moral Attitude
- Appendix: A Guess at a Riddle
- Bibliography
- Index of Proper Names
- Index of Topics
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