Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Steps along the way: Schleiermacher's ethics before 1812 -- "Notes on Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics 8-9" (1788) -- On the Highest Good -- On Freedom -- On the Value of Life -- Schleiermacher's ethics and early Romanticism -- Grundlinien einer Kritik der bisherigen Sittenlehre -- Brouillon zur Ethik -- Schleiermacher's mature ethics -- Dates and style of the lectures -- Basic concepts and themes in the lectures -- Ethics as a descriptive and historical science -- Nature as organ and symbol of reason -- Doctrines of goods, virtue, and duties -- Universality and particularity -- Four spheres of ethical activity -- Four types of moral institution and community -- Assessing Schleiermacher's ethics -- Chronology -- Further reading -- Note on the text -- Translator's note -- Ethics 1812/13: Introduction and doctrine of goods -- Introduction -- I Transition from critique to real depiction -- II Deduction of ethics by dialectical reasoning -- III Ethics considered as a process of becoming -- The highest good -- Introduction -- Part I General overview -- Part II Detailed exposition -- I The organizing function -- 1 Considered in very general terms -- 2 Considered under opposing characters -- 3 a) With dominant identity -- Alpha) In general -- Beta) In the oscillation of personality -- b) With that of particularity -- Alpha) In general -- Beta) In the oscillation of personality -- II The cognitive function under the condition of mere personality -- I Considered in very general terms -- 2 Considered under opposing characters -- 3 a) Identity of schematism -- [Alpha) In general] -- Beta) In the oscillation of personality -- b) Particularity -- [Alpha) In general ] -- Beta) In the oscillation of personality -- Part III On perfect ethical forms -- Introduction.

On the sexes, and the family -- On national unity -- On the state -- On the national community of knowledge -- Closing remarks on nationality -- General prefatory remarks, concerning the ethical forms related to the particular side of both functions -- On the church -- On free sociability -- Conclusion -- Ethics 1812/13: Doctrine of virtue and doctrine of duties -- Doctrine of virtue -- I Introduction -- [On virtue as disposition] -- Wisdom -- Love -- On virtue as skill -- Prudence -- Steadfastness -- Conclusion -- Doctrine of duties -- Introduction -- Duty of right -- Duty of profession -- Introduction, final version (probably 1816/17) A new beginning for ethics -- I Conditions for the depiction of a particular science -- II Derivation of the concept of ethics -- III Exposition of the doctrine of morals [Sittenlehre] -- IV The shape given to the doctrine of morals -- Doctrine of goods, final version (probably 1816/17) -- 1 Introduction -- Section One -- Basic outline -- Section Two -- Elementary part, or, the exposition of oppositions -- I Formative activity -- 1 Considered in very general terms -- 2 Considered under its opposing characters -- a) That of singleness -- b) That of diversity -- II Signifying activity -- I In general -- Doctrine of duties, final version (probably 1814/17) -- Introduction -- I On the duty of right -- II On the duty of profession -- The individual aspect -- III On the duty of conscience -- IV On the duty of love -- Index.