A Handbook of Ethical Theory (English Edition) (Annotated)

by George Stuart Fullerton

"In order to help ethics students in our universities and outside of them to better understand the meaning of morality and the end of ethical effort, this book has been written." In the accompanying notes, I have taken the I want to make some suggestions to teachers, some of whom have less years of teaching behind the ones I have, I do not apologize for writing in a clear, non-technical style, or for minimizing references to literature in other languages. These things are in accordance with the purpose of the volume. “This edition contains a unique biography of the great George Stuart Fullerton, where he discusses in detail his life and his work as a philosopher that helps to understand the different motivations that led to the writings of his works. It also contains explanatory notes to better understand the whole narrative.

Genres: Philosophy

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1922

About the author

George Stuart Fullerton was an American philosopher and psychologist.

He graduated in 1879 from the University of Pennsylvania and in 1884 from Yale Divinity School. In 1904 he was appointed professor of philosophy at Columbia University, and served as head of the department.

He was the host of the first annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in 1892 at the University of Pennsylvania, and the APA's fifth president, in 1896.

In 1914, while he was exchange professor at the University of Vienna, World War I broke out. He was Lecturing at Munich, Germany, when he was imprisoned as a civilian enemy national. He remained imprisoned for four years, until the end of the war, and conditions were so harsh that he returned to the U.S. with his health permanently damaged. Nearly an invalid for the last decade of his life, Fullerton committed suicide at the age of 66.