The Ethical Kinship

  1. [Human Nature a Product of the Jungle]
  2. [Egoism and Altruism]
  3. [The Ethics of the Savage]
  4. [The Ethics of the Ancient]
  5. [Modern Ethics]
  6. [The Ethics of Human Beings Toward Non-human Beings]
  7. [The Origin of Provincialism]
  8. [Universal Ethics]
  9. [The Psychology of Altruism]
  10. [Anthropocentric Ethics]
  11. [Ethical Implications of Evolution]
  12. [Conclusion]

One of the wisest things ever said by one of the profoundest philosophers of all time was the warning to the seeker after truth to beware of the influence of the ‘idols (or illusions) of the tribe’ by which he meant that body of traditional prejudices which every sect, family, nation, and neighbourhood has clinging to it, and in the midst of which and at the mercy of which every human being grows up.