Morality, Decision and Social Organization

Toward a Logic of Ethics

I. Common Traits of the Classical Systems of Ethics: An Introductory Letter About what will not be Said.
II. Five Epistemological Notes About Good and Evil.
1. The Development of a Person’s Sense of Morality.
2. The Ideals.
3. The Logical Role of the Ideals.
4. The Essence of the Good. The Meaningless.
5. The Development of the Epistemology of Morality.
III. The Ethics of Decisions: A Dialog on Demystified Ethics.
1. Whether investigations according to the principles suggested in the preceding notes belong to ethics at all.
2. Whether there do not exist still other ethical questions.
3. Whether ethics is analogous to geometry.
4. Whether systems of norms might not be combined by logical operations.
5. Whether decisions are the only basis for morality.
6. Whether rational foundations for decisions are possible.
7. What role faith plays in morality.
8. What demystified ethics might be able to achieve….
9. … except for a logic of norms.
10. … and except for a logic of desires.
IV. Five Logico-mathematical Notes on Voluntary Associations.
1. The Partitions of People Induced by Norms.
2. Duality.
3. Disjunctive Norms.
4. A Person’s Demands on Himself and on Others.
5. Several Modes of Behavior.
V. Logic, Imagination, Reality, Evaluations: A Concluding Letter about what has been said.
Postscript to the English Edition.
Karl Menger: Principal Dates.
Fields of Research.
Publications in Book Form.