Lectures on moral philosophy

Prefatory Note

As this book is the first of a proposed series of reprints of works of early American philosophers, a word may be said as to the general plan of which it forms a part.

Projected by the American Philosophical Association, the series is to be published under the Association’s auspices by the institutions with which the authors of the works chosen were more particularly affiliated. Thus, this volume bears the imprint of the Princeton University Press ; and it is hoped to issue in due course, at Columbia University President Johnson’s ““Elements of Philosophy”, at Harvard University the Dudleian “Lectures on Natural Religion”, at Yale University selections from the philosophical writings of the elder Jonathan Edwards, and elsewhere other works of similar character, representative of the deeper currents of American thinking in the early period. Much of this thinking is at least respectable, and some of it significant and important; but knowledge and appreciation of it seem at the present day to be remarkably lacking. The aim then of this series is to develop a consciousness of the historical background of our native American philosophy, especially among those who, as teachers and students of philosophy, are heirs of the tradition, and therefore should also be its keepers.

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