Ethics : Volume II

Volume II: The author presents all values as forming a complex and, as yet, imperfectly known system. The actualization of the non-moral and of the elementary moral values is a necessary condition for the actualization of the higher. On this account the rudimentary values have a prior claim. The author then gives in outline the main features of the chief virtues, and shows that the moral disposition required in any exigency is always a specific synthesis of various and often conflicting virtues.