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Karl Kautsky
Ethics and the Materialist Conception Of History
(1906)
Written: 1906.
Published: Charles H. Kerr & Co.
Translated: John B. Askew.
Transcribed: Sally Ryan.
Author’s
Preface
I. Ancient
and Christian Ethics
II. The
Ethical Systems of The Period of the Enlightenment
III. The
Ethic of Kant
1. The
Criticism of Knowledge
2. The
Moral Law
3. Freedom
and Necessity
4. The
Philosophy of Reconciliation
IV. The
Ethic of Darwinism
1. The
Struggle for Existence
2.
Self-Movement and Intelligence
3. The
Motives of Self-Maintenance and Propagation
4. The
Social Instinct
V. The
Ethics of Marxism
1. The
Roots of the Materialist Conception of History
2. The
Organization of the Human Society
a.
The Technical Development
b.
Technic and Method of Life
c. Animal
and Social Organization
3. The
Changes in the Strength of the Social Instincts
a.
Language
b. War
and Property
4. The
Influence of the Social Instincts
a. Internationalism
b. The
Class Division
5. The
Tenets of Morality
a. Custom and Convention
b. The
System of Production and Its Superstructure
c. Old
and New
d. The
Moral Ideal
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