Contents

Humanistic ethics: The applied science of the art of living

• Humanistic vs. Authoritarian ethics
• Subjectivistic vs. objectivistic ethics
• The science of man
• The tradition of humanistic ethics
• Ethics and psychoanalysis

Human nature and character

• The human situation
• Man's biological weakness
• The existential and the historical dichotomies in man
• Personality
• Temperament
• Character
• The dynamic concept of character
• Types of character: the nonproductive orientations
• The receptive orientation
• The exploitative orientation
• The hoarding orientation
• The marketing orientation
• The productive orientation
• General characteristics
• Productive love and thinking
• Orientations in the process of socialization
• Blends of various orientations

Problems of humanistic ethics

• Selfishness, self-love, and self-interest
• Conscience, man's recall to himself
• Authoritarian conscience
• Humanistic conscience
• Pleasure and happiness
• Pleasure as a criterion of value
• Types of pleasure
• The problem of means and ends
• Faith as a character trait
• The moral powers in man
• Man, good or evil?
• Repression vs productiveness
• Character and moral judgment
• Absolute vs relative, universal vs. socially immanent ethics

The moral problem of today

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