Ethics and the Materialist Conception of History

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Ethics and The Materialist Conception of History (1909)
by Karl Johann Kautsky, translated by John Bertram Askew

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Translation of Ethik und materialistische Geschichtsauffassung published in 1906.

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ETHICS
AND THE
MATERIALIST CONCEPTION
OF HISTORY.

page

— Ethics —

and the

Materialist Conception
of History.

By
KARL KAUTSKY
(Author of "The Social Revolution and on the Morrow
of the Social Revolution,” &c.).

Translated by J. B. ASKEW.

LONDON:
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY PRESS, LIMITED
(Trade Union and 48 Hours),
37a and 38, Clerkenwell Green, E.C.

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CONTENTS.

CHAP		PAGE
	Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	vii
I.	Ancient and Christian Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	1
II.	The Ethical Systems of the Period of the Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	11
III.	The Ethics of Kant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	20
	1.—The Criticism of Knowledge.
	2.—The Moral Law
	3.—Freedom and Necessity.
	4.—The Philosophy of Reconciliation.
IV.	The Ethics of Darwinism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	41
	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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	63
	1.—The Roots of the Materialist Conception of History.
	2.—The Organisation of Human Society.
	3.—The Changes in the Strength of the Social Instinct.
	4.—The Influence of the Social Instincts.
	5.—The Tenets of Morality.

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