Introduction to Routledge Classics Edition -- Foreword -- I The Problem -- II Humanistic Ethics: The applied science of the art of living --
1. Humanistic vs. Authoritarian Ethics --
2. Subjectivistic vs. Objectivistic Ethics --
3. The Science of Man --
4. The Tradition of Humanistic Ethics --
5. Ethics and Psychoanalysis -- III Human Nature and Character --
1. The Human Situation -- A. Man’s biological weakness -- B. The existential and the historical dichotomies in man --
2. Personality -- A. Temperament -- B. Character -- (1) The dynamic concept of character -- (2) Types of character: the nonproductive orientations -- (A) The receptive orientation -- (B) The exploitative orientation -- (C) The hoarding orientation -- (D) The marketing orientation -- (3) The productive orientation -- (A) General characteristics -- (B) Productive love and thinking -- (4) Orientations in the process of socialization -- (5) Blends of various orientations -- IV Problems of Humanistic Ethics --
1. Selfishness, Self-Love, and Self-Interest --
2. Conscience, Man’s Recall to Himself -- A. Authoritarian conscience -- B. Humanistic conscience --
3. Pleasure and Happiness -- A. Pleasure as a criterion of value -- B. Types of pleasure -- C. The problem of means and ends --
4. Faith as a Character Trait --
5. The Moral Powers in Man -- A. Man, good or evil? -- B. Repression vs. productiveness -- C. Character and moral judgment --
6. Absolute vs. Relative, Universal vs. Socially Immanent Ethics -- V The Moral Problem of Today -- Index.