ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that as the conduct with which Ethics deals is a part of conduct at large, conduct at large must be understood before this part can be understood. The entire field of Ethics includes the two great divisions, personal and social. Continuance of the society depends on satisfaction of those primarily personal needs which result in marriage and parenthood. Under the ethics of personal considered in relation to existing conditions, have to come all questions concerning the degree in which immediate personal welfare has to be postponed, either to ultimate personal welfare or to the welfare of others. The division of Ethics considered under its absolute form, has to define the equitable relations among perfect individuals who limit one another's spheres of action by co-existing, and who achieve their ends by co-operation. The relations between the individual and the State, considered as representing all individuals, have to be deduced — an important and a relatively difficult matter.
