Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to make a study of the underlying principles of Moral Conduct in their relation to Reality. In all ethical attempts of the past, there was one particular at least in which they were correct, namely, that man is essentially a creature of desire, ever craving for sane ideal object. Green presents this same truth very vividly and convincingly in his theory of "seif-objectification," H ; and in his doctrine of the nature of consciousness, he attempts to ground this self-objectifying principle. This, in a word, will be our attempt to ground the ideal. [...]