Philosophy as a Science - 1909 Author:Paul Carus Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Is life worth living? Symbols of immortality taught in allegory or symbol are but are but makeshifts to express for people makeshifts. untrained in phi... more »losophical thought this grandest of all religious truths. See also Fechner's View of Life After Death. Monist, XVI, 84. The Soul in Science and Religion. Monist XVI, 218. "Dr. Cants answers the question, 'Is Life Worth Living?' very fully and satisfactorily. The whole is a comprehensive and helpful treatise."—Journal of Education, Boston. "Full of stimulating thoughts."—Dominion Presbyterian. "Reverent and actuated by noble purpose."— Congregationalist. "There are many fine passages in this book, and the general trend of the argument is undeniably sound."—Literary Guide. ETHICS AND RELIGION. A controver- HTHE ETHICAL PROBLEM. Three sial Lectures on Ethics as a Science. Sec- treatment ond edition, including a discussion of the of ethics. subject by William M. Salter, John Mad- dock, F. M. Holland, Prof. Friedrich Jodl, Dr. R. Lewins, Prof. H. Hoffding, Prof. L. M. Billia. Pages, 351. Cloth, $1.25 (6s. 6d.). The Ethical Problem consists of three lectures, delivered before the Society of Ethical Culture at Chicago, criticizing the attitude of the Society. Dr. Carus believesthat pure ethics, which means ethics not based on either philosophy or religion, has no existence. For ethics is always based upon a world-conception and from this derives its character. Different ethical systems always presuppose different philosophies. Hedonism, which is based on the princi- Pursuit of pie that that is moral which will bring pleasure is about a maximum of pleasure for the great- not morality, est number of people, is, closely considered, a denial of ethics. The pursuit of happiness has nothing to do wit...« less