Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- I. The Nature and Complexity of the Problem -- 1. Issues in the "Relation of Science and Ethics -- 2. The Place of Scientific Results in Ethical Theory -- 3. The Role of Scientific Method in Ethical Theory -- 4. The Impact of the Scientific Temper in Ethical Theory -- 5. Moralities -- 6. Methodological Approaches in Ethics -- 7. The Structure of an Ethical Theory -- II. The Theory of Existential Perspectives -- 8. The Concept of an Existential Perspective -- 9. Role of Existential Perspective within an Ethical Theory -- 10. Overtly Scientific Existential Perspectives: Physical and Biological -- 11. Overtly Scientific Existential Perspectives: Psychological -- 12. Overtly Scientific Existential Perspectives: Sociocultural and Sociohistorical -- 13. Science in Theological and Metaphysical Existential Perspectives -- 14. Science in Transcendence Existential Perspectives -- 15. Evaluation of Existential Perspectives -- III. The Role of Science in Conceptual and Methodological Analysis -- 16. Conceptual-Methodological Frameworks -- 17. Are There Workable Concepts of Moral Phenomena and Moral Experience? -- 18. Ethical Concept-Families and Their Existential Linkage -- 19. Organization, Generalization, Systematization -- 20. Validation, Verification, Reasoning, Justification -- 21. Application and Evaluative Processes -- IV. Decision, Freedom, and Responsibility -- 22. Evaluative Processes in Unstructured Situations -- 23. Toward a Scientific Study of Freedom and Responsibility -- 24. Toward a Strategy fo r Solution of the Free-W illProblem in Ethics -- 25. The Creative Temper and the Scientific Temper -- Notes.