Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTION. THE present lecture on The Ethics of the Greek Philosophers is one of a course on The Evolution of Ethics delivered before the Brooklyn Ethical Association in the years 1896 and 1897. Some of these lectures were also given at the Cambridge Conferences at "The Studio House" of Mrs. Ole Bull in Cambridge, Mass., of which conferences the late Dr. Lewis G. Janes was then director, having been previously President of The Brooklyn Ethical Association for several terms. The full list of these lectures is as follows: --Origin Of Ethical Ideas, Dr. Lewis G. Janes, M. A. Ethical Ideas Of The Hindus, Swami Saradananda of India. Ethics Of Zoroaster And The Parsis, Mr. Jehanghile Dossabhoy Cola, of Bombay, India. Ethics Of Buddhism, Anagarika H. Dharmapala, of Colombo, Ceylon. Ethics Of The Chinese Sages, Prof. F. Huberty James, Imperial University, Peking Ethics Of The Greek Philosophers, Prof. Jas. H. Hyslop, Columbia University, New York Ethics Of The Stoics And Epicureans, Rev. Merle St. Croix Wright of New York. Ethics Of The Hebrews, Rabbi Joseph Silverman of New York. Ethics Of The Mohammedans, Mr. Z. Sidney Sampson of New York. Ethics Of The New Testament, Prof. Crawford Howell Toy, D.D., of Harvard University. Ethics Of The German Schools, Miss Anna Boynton Thompson of Boston. Utilitarian Ethics, Dr. Robert G. Eccles of Brooklyn and Prof. Benjamin Underwood of Quincy, 111. Ethics Of Evolution, Rev. John C. Kimball of Sharon, Mass., and M. Mangassarin of New York. This series of lectures was proposed and arranged chiefly by our former esteemed President, Mr. Z. Sidney Sampson, whose death in 1897, followed by some changes in the Association, has been one of the causes which have helped to delay the publication, but it has now...
