Philosophy as a Science 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: Symbols are but makeshifts. Is life worth living? A controversial treatment of ethics. of immortality taught in allegory or symbol are but makeshift... more »s to express for people untrained in philosophical 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. Carus answers the question, 'Is Life Worth Living?' very fully and satisfactorily. The whole is a comprehens1ve 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. TTHE ETHICAL PROBLEM. Three 1 Lectures on Ethics as a Science. Second edition, including a discussion of the 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 principle that that is moral which will bring about a maximum of pleasure for the greatest number of people, is, closely considered, a denial of ethics. The pursuit of happiness has nothing to do with morality, and if there were no duty except to b...« less