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| CHAPTER IV. | ||
| Altruism and Egoism in Certain Recent Discussions | 61 | |
| I. | Illustration of Certain Doctrines about the Nature of Altruism | 63 |
| II. | Is Altruism Disguised Selfishness? | 65 |
| III. | Inquiry as to the real Difference between Altruism and Selfishness | 66 |
| IV. | If Genuine Altruism cannot now be Disguised Selfishness, can Evolution explain the Relations of the two? | 74 |
| V. | Schopenhauer's Effort to define Altruism in Terms of the Emotion of Pity | 85 |
| VI. | Further Explanation of Schopenhauer's View | 89 |
| VII. | The Selfishness and Cruelty that often are the Result of Pity | 94 |
| VIII. | The Cruelty of the Happy, and the Selfishness associated with active Sympathy | 100 |
| IX. | Rejection of Pity as the Basis for a Distinction of Altruism and Egoism. Negative Result of the Chapter | 104 |
| CHAPTER V. | ||
| Ethical Skepticism and Ethical Pessimism | 107 | |
| I. | The Skeptical Motive in Pessimism | 108 |
| II. | The Skeptical Motive in the Romantic Pessimism of Modern Poetry | 110 |
| III. | Ethical Skepticism in Mr. Balfour's Statement of its Positions | 127 |
| CHAPTER VI. | ||
| The Moral Insight | 131 | |
| I. | The Meaning of Ethical Skepticism, and the Ideal consequently involved in it | 131 |
| II. | Answers to Objections | 141 |
| III. | Application to the Problem of Altruism | 146 |
