Studies of Good and Evil: A Series of Essays upon Problems of Philosophy and of Life (1899)

The title of this book is in its nature wide. It commits the essays contained in this volume merely to one common character. There are all, directly or indirectly, contributions to the comprehension of the ethical aspects of the universe. The papers are of very various relations to technical philosophical issues. Contents: Problem of Job; Case of John Bunyan; Tennyson and Pessimism; Knowledge of Good and Evil; Natural Law, Ethics and Evolution; Implications of Self-Consciousness; Some Observations on the Anomalies of Self-Consciousness; Originality and Consciousness; Meister Eckhart; An Episode of Early California Life, the Squatter Riot of 1850 in Sacramento; Jean Marie Guyau.