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The Principles of Ethics, Volume II

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Author
Herbert Spencer
First published
1896
Format
PDF, EPUB, and Kindle
Pages
517
Publisher
D. Appleton and Company, New York
License
Believed to be in the public domain by publication date; not independently confirmed.

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Herbert Spencer The Principles of Ethics, Volume II

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517 pages, 55 chapters, and about 159,555 words in the edition this archive serves.
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Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) was one of the leading 19th-century English radical individualists. He began working as a journalist for the laissez-faire magazine The Economist in the 1850s. This archive holds 5 of Spencer's works.

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55 chapters · 159,555 words · free to read here

  1. Preface to Vol. II
  2. Preface to Part IV.
  3. Contents of Vol. II
  4. I. Animal Ethics
  5. II. Sub Human Justice
  6. III. Human Justice
  7. IV. The Sentiment of Justice
  8. V. The Idea of Justice
  9. VI. The Formula of Justice
  10. VII. The Authority of This Formula
  11. VIII. The Corollaries
  12. IX. The Right to Physical Integrity
  13. X. The Rights to Free Motion and Locomotion
  14. XI. The Rights To the Uses of National Media
  15. XII. The Right to Property
  16. XIII. The Right to Incorporeal Property
  17. XIV. The Rights of Gift and Request
  18. XV. The Rights of Free Exchange
  19. XVI. The Right to Free Industry
  20. XVII. The Rights of Free Relief and Worship
  21. XVIII. The Rights of Free Speech and Publication
  22. XIX. A Retrospective with an Addition
  23. XX. The Rights of Women
  24. XXI. The Rights of Children
  25. XXII. Political Rights - So-Called
  26. XXIII. The Nature of the State
  27. XXIV. The Constitution of the State
  28. XXV. The Duties of the State
  29. XXVI. The Limits of State Duties
  30. XXVII. The Limits of State Duties - continued
  31. XXVIII. The Limits of State Duties - Continued
  32. XXIX. The Limits of State Duties - Continued
  33. Part V. The Ethics of Social Life
  34. II. Restraints of Free Competition
  35. III. Restraints on Free Contract
  36. IV. Restraints on Undeserved Payments
  37. V. Restraints on Displays of Ability
  38. VI. Restraints on Blame
  39. VII. Restraints on Praise
  40. VIII. The Ultimate Sanctions
  41. Part VI. The Ethics of Social Life
  42. I. Marital Reneficence
  43. II. Parental Beneficence
  44. III. Filial Beneficence
  45. IV. Aiding the Sick and the Injured
  46. V. Succour to the Ill-used and the Endangered
  47. VI. Pecuniary Aid to Relatives and Friends
  48. VII. Relief of the Poor
  49. VIII. Social Beneficence
  50. IX. Political Beneficence
  51. X. Beneficence at Large
  52. Appendices
  53. References
  54. Subject Index
  55. About this edition
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