Ethical Systems And Legal Ideals

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Felix Cohen (1907–1953) was a leading architect of the Indian New Deal and steadfast champion of American Indian rights. Appointed to the Department of the Interior in 1933, he helped draft the Indian Reorganization Act (1934) and chaired a committee charged with assisting tribes in organizing their governments. His “Basic Memorandum on Drafting of Tribal Constitutions,” submitted in November 1934, provided practical guidelines for that effort.

Originally published in 1897, this volume is a translation of the second book of Professor Wundt's Ethik, comprising pages 270-432 of the second German edition, and forms a concise history of ethics. Ethik was originally published in revised form in 1892. It has been the author's object in the work to investigate the problems of ethics in the light of an examination of the facts of moral life, including chapters on ancient ethics, Christian ethics and modern ethics.