The foundation of ethics: Untenability of moral skepticism and relativism -- The scope and meaning of ethics: Definition of ethics -- Relation of ethics with other science -- Morality and other phases of human life -- The importance of ethics -- Fundamental concepts: Morality -- Norm of morality -- Human acts -- Voluntaries and responsibility -- Further study on involuntariness -- The moral principle involved in actions having two effects -- Factors that lessen accountability -- Concupiscence -- Fear and violence -- The principle of coercion -- Violence and habit -- Two Fundamentals questions: Relation between two questions -- The ultimate end of all man's volitional activities -- The quest for the perfect -- Man and beauty -- Man and peace -- The question on the norm of morality: "Good" Means befitting man's nature -- Human nature in all its essential relationships -- The nature of the norm of morality -- Relative versus absolute morality -- Faulty psychological basis of moral theories and misconceptions of human nature -- Defective norms of morality: Hedonism -- Utilitarianism -- Critical appreciation of hedonism and utilitarianism -- the theory of Herbert Spencer -- Moral rationalism -- Criticism of the Kantian theory -- Moral evolutionism -- Contrast between Nietzsche and Budha -- Moral positivism -- Moral sensism -- The moral philosophy of communism -- Ethical fallacies -- Fallacy of the accident -- Specific determinants of morality: Explanation of terms -- The circumstances -- Situation ethics -- Ethics and law: The metaphysical basis of law -- General concept of law -- The eternal law -- The physical and moral law -- Human positive laws and the moral laws -- Quotations -- Life and law -- Law and justice -- Human rights and natural law: Rights and the human person -- Importance of the doctrine of human rights -- Reality and justification of rights -- Definition of rights -- Misconception of individual rights -- Limitations of rights -- -- Ethics and love: Love of self and others --Ethics and justice -- Distributive -- Legal, and commutative justice -- Duties of justice -- Rights of the individual -- Self defense -- Honor and good name -- Truthfulness -- Mental reservation -- Family and social ethics -- Birth control and morality -- The individual and the state: Pantheistic theory of state -- Divine right theory -- Theory of social contract -- The theory of Rousseau -- The christian concept of the state -- The moral philosophy of democracy: Human liberty -- Equality of all men -- Confraternity -- Authority and law -- Relation between man and the state in a democracy -- Revolution -- Is it ever justified? -- Rights to revolt -- Right to inflict capital punishment -- Liberty and law: Reality and universality of the problem -- Our own approach to the problem -- From logic -- Semantics and science -- Ethics and mysticism: Morality and mysticism -- Different ways toward divine union the christian way -- Union through contemplation -- Oriental mysticism -- Chinese mysticism -- Confusuis (kon-fu-tzu) -- Difference between the two types -- Redirection of desires -- God-centered living -- Ethics in all times and climes: The history of ethics -- Oriental philosophy of life -- Readings in oriented ethics -- The central harmony -- The golden mean -- Moral law everywhere -- The humanistic standard -- Motse -- Chinese religious teacher --Laotse, the book of Tao --Confucius philosophy of life: From pressimism to optimism -- Man, the center of harmony -- The golden rules spring from justice -- The moral law within and without -- The moral law is everywhere -- Self control -- Passions and happiness -- Towards a perfect human society -- The Jen -- Greek wisdom and ethics: Greek wisdom on life -- The cosmic computer -- Socrates -- Man and virtue -- Man and the problem of evil -- Plato -- The ideal man, the perfect man -- The one and the many -- Man and knowledge -- The perfect model -- Man and contemplation -- Contemplation and imitation -- Quotations from Plato -- Aristotle's philosophy of man: Man is reason -- Man and reason -- The whole man -- Aristotle's theory of contemplation -- Man's perfection and happiness -- Happiness -- Theory of the golden mean -- Christian moral philosophy: St. Augustine's philosophy : love and destiny -- Against hedonism and stoicism -- Philosophy of the state --Liberty and love -- The existence of moral obligation -- Saint Thomas Aquinas: Man'a ultimate destiny -- Philosophy of happiness -- The universal man of Aristotle -- The transforming power of love -- Transformation and transcendence -- Beyond the universal - The transcendental -- Perfection by participation -- Beyond contradiction- union -- The transcendental - golden mean , between man and god -- Man, love and destiny -- Freedom and destiny -- Kant's metaphysics of morals: Immanuel Kant : Man and duty -- The dignity of man -- Comment on equality of person -- Kant's theory of knowledge -- The kingdom of ends.