Recent Tendencies in Ethics

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Recent Tendencies in Ethics, by William Ritchie SorleyThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Recent Tendencies in EthicsAuthor: William Ritchie SorleyRelease Date: June 2, 2004 [eBook #12492]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RECENT TENDENCIES IN ETHICS***E-text prepared by the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team from images provided by the MillionBook ProjectRECENT TENDENCIES IN ETHICSThree Lectures to Clergy Given at CambridgeBYW. R. SORLEY, M.A. HON. LL.D. EDIN.Knightbridge Professor of Moral PhilosophyMCMIVPREFACEThese lectures were given to a summer meeting of clergy, held at Cambridge in the month of July last. Some passageshave been added as they were written out for the press, and the crudities of the spoken word have, I hope, been prunedaway; but, in other respects, the original plan of the lectures has been retained. They are now published in the hope thatthey may prove of interest to those who heard them, and to others who may desire an account, in short compass and inpopular form, of some leading features of the ethical thought of the present day.It is inevitable for such an account to be controversial: otherwise it could not give a true picture of ...