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Preface vii
PREAMBLE The Rationalist Imperative 2
PART I THE INTELLECTUALIST APPROACH
Chapter 1 Intellectualism, Ancient and Modern 14
(Plato and Locke)
Chapter 2 Intellectualism Distorted 34
(Epicurus and Bentham)
Chapter 3 Intellectualism versus Hedonism 50
(Godwin and Mill)
Chapter 4 Intellectualism Restored 64
(Aurelius and Kant)
Chapter 5 The Ethics of the Rational Being 83
(Kant)
INTERMISSION The Moral Problem of War 107
PART II THE PERFECTIONIST APPROACH
Chapter 6 Perfectionism, Ancient and Modern 120
(Aristotle and Spinoza)
Chapter 7 Perfectionism Distorted 145
(St Paul and Hegel)
Chapter 8 Perfectionism versus Historicism 176
(Marx and Engels)
Chapter 9 Perfectionism Restored 208
(St Augustine and Nietzsche)
Chapter 10 The Ethics of the Rational Animal 231
(Nietzsche)
POST-AMBLE Acknowledgements 257
Notes and References 261
Dates of principal philosophers mentioned 275
In Memoriam
MARCEL OPPENHEIMER
13 December 1913—15 March 1968
