Kautsky: Ethics (1906) (original) (raw)

Written: 1906.
Published: Charles H. Kerr & Co.
Translated: John B. Askew.
Transcribed: Sally Ryan.

Author’s Preface

I. Ancient and Christian Ethics

II. The Ethical Systems of The Period of the Enlightenment

III. The Ethic of Kant

1. The Criticism of Knowledge

2. The Moral Law

3. Freedom and Necessity

4. The Philosophy of Reconciliation

IV. The Ethic of Darwinism

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

1. The Roots of the Materialist Conception of History

2. The Organization of the Human Society
a. The Technical Development
b. Technic and Method of Life
c. Animal and Social Organization

3. The Changes in the Strength of the Social Instincts
a. Language
b. War and Property

4. The Influence of the Social Instincts
a. Internationalism
b. The Class Division

5. The Tenets of Morality
a. Custom and Convention
b. The System of Production and Its Superstructure
c. Old and New
d. The Moral Ideal