Project Gutenberg 2025-08-01 Public domain in the USA. 459 Faguet, Émile 1847 1916 Faguet, Emile Faguet, Auguste-Émile La démission de la morale $aParis :$bSociété française d'imprimerie et de librairie, $c1910. Avant Kant -- La morale de Kant -- Le néo-kantisme -- La morale sans obligation ni sanction -- La morale de Nietzsche -- La moral science-des-mœurs -- La morale de l'honneur. Laurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) "La démission de la morale" by Émile Faguet is a philosophical treatise written in the early 20th century. The work examines how moral thought moves from ancient, persuasive ethics to the Christian era’s commanding duties and, finally, to Kant’s autonomous morality of pure obligation. It asks whether modern ethics has let duty abdicate in favor of comfort, utility, or sentiment, turning morality into a mere art of living. Readers interested in ethics and intellectual history will find a rigorous, critical survey of moral foundations. The opening of the treatise states its aim: to trace the evolution of morality—especially in France—from pre-Kantian systems to the latest debates. Faguet distinguishes morality as science (normative, rule-giving) from morality as art (techniques for happiness), then surveys antiquity: Socratic and Stoic ethics as rational yet persuasive, Epicurean ethics as eudaimonistic and hypothetical, all lacking true imperative force, much like the mixed imperatives of Greek religion with its gods, Fate, and Nemesis. He shows Christianity instituting a genuinely imperative morality grounded in obedience to God, transformed by Jesus from justice to love, yet still supported by religious sanctions; later, as faith wanes, utilitarian and sentimental “independent” moralities remain merely persuasive and subjective. Turning to Kant, he presents the first fully independent, autonomous morality: the moral fact is self-evident and categorical; duty commands without conditions; freedom is affirmed by the experience of remorse; rewards or pleasure corrupt moral purity; virtue is a conquest against nature; and an enduring tension opposes individual happiness to species-level duty—so that morality becomes, from the start, a perpetual internal struggle of the self against itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2207336 20250625111738faguet 1910 FR Reading ease score: 68.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. fr Ethics Conduct of life Ethics -- History BJ Text Category: Philosophy & Ethics 524209 2025-08-01T11:01:06.264590 text/html 499835 2025-08-01T10:03:17 text/html 322039 2025-08-01T11:01:21.822014 application/epub+zip 326088 2025-08-01T11:01:13.415560 application/epub+zip 281186 2025-08-01T11:01:08.864575 application/epub+zip 546778 2025-08-01T11:01:29.192976 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 519618 2025-08-01T11:01:21.426054 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 490662 2025-08-01T11:01:05.465636 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 470781 2025-08-01T10:03:17 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 4732 2025-08-01T11:01:29.339972 application/rdf+xml 10721 2025-08-01T11:01:13.062556 image/jpeg 2206 2025-08-01T11:01:12.967577 image/jpeg 278342 2025-08-01T11:01:06.314651 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia