| TITLE PAGE | |
| DEDICATION | iii |
| PREFACE | v–x |
| PROLEGOMENA. | |
| I. Depreciation of Muhammedan systems — should now be at an end — II. Literary and political condition of Western Asia at the period when this work was produced — III. Derivation and growth of its materials — IV. Its bearings on the question of education in the East — V. Its general value as a piece of historical evidence — VI. Its power of illustrating Greek writers, and particularly those of the lower empire — VII. Its resemblance to the scholastic treatises of the middle ages — VIII. Importance of the moral canon it applies throughout — IX. Its subservience to religious objects — X. Its illustrations of Pantheism — sources of moral obligation — sketch of the Súfy metaphysics and their tendencies — indigenous to Asia — Muhammedan politics — their pressure upon the scientific classes | |
| EXORDIUM. | |
| Praise of God, the Prophet, and the king — occasion, object, and material of the work — statement and division of the subject | |
| INTRODUCTION. | |
| All things have their allotted end and province — that of man the vice-regence of God upon earth — his peculiar qualifications for the post — beyond those of other beings — even of the angels — to be realized by knowledge and practice — necessity of combining the two — the rule and method of pursuing them — it is the object of morals to set forth — consequent importance of the science — chief objection to it the immutability of character — discussed and overruled | |
| BOOK I. THE INDIVIDUAL STATE. | |
| SECT. I. Sources of action — reason, desire, and resentment — proper adjustment of the three — virtues belonging to each — wisdom, equity, temperance, courage, — equity the paramount virtue — whether an element or a product? | |
| SECT. II. Definitions of the generic virtues — must be realized in act — species of wisdom, of courage, of temperance, of equity | |
| SECT. III. Counterfeit virtues under each of the four genera | |
| SECT. IV. The vices — extremes of excess and deficiency — the mean of virtue, real and approximate — the generic vices — flightiness and stupidity, rashness and cowardice, lasciviousness and indifference, tyranny and servility | |
| SECT. V. The divine nature a unity in distribution — proportion a recurrence of it — the rule of all excellence — proportions of equity — three preservatives of — three infractions of — anecdote of Malik Shāh — equity embodies all the virtues — its divisions — affection held to supersede equity | |
| SECT. VI. Art an approach to nature — the order in which the powers are produced — should be that in which they are cultivated | |
| SECT. VII. Natural proneness to evil — to be resisted — by avoiding temptation — practising blameless pursuits — and consulting others on the subject of our own defects | |
| SECT. VIII. Genera of mental disease — excess, deficiency, and perversion of state in each of the three powers — influence of the body — methods of cure — application to instances — in the power of reason — perplexity — ignorance simple and compound — in the power of resentment — anger and its ten causes — faint-heartedness — fear, and especially fear of death — in the power of appetite — gluttony — lasciviousness — love — sorrow — envy | |
| BOOK II. THE DOMESTIC STATE. | |
| SECT. I. Preparation and accumulation of food — requires the assistance of a partner — wife — children — servants — the five constituents of home — with home itself — how to be regulated | |
| SECT. II. Variety of stores — money — income, its three sources — farming, trade, profession — compared — professions, how characterized — preservation of property — expenditure — its three divisions | |
| SECT. III. Object of matrimony — rules for the choice of wives — for the management of them — plurality of wives indefensible — rules for the conduct of wives — divorce — Arab proverbs | |
| SECT. IV. Suckling of children — naming them — training them — choice of an instructor — choice of a profession — cultivation of it — settlement of sons — education of daughters — manners — conversation — motion — meals | |
| SECT. V. Rights of parents — how to be discharged — of parental friends | |
| SECT. VI. Utility of menials — rules for selecting them — employing them — attaching them — dismissing them — slaves — national characteristics of | |
| BOOK III. THE POLITICAL STATE. | |
| SECT. I. Perfection — instantaneous and progressive — means of effecting the latter — subserviency of other things to man — of men to each other — division of labour — diversity of qualification — inequality of property — generate dissension — Law and the Law-giver — the Executive — his functions — his art an aggregate of all arts | |
| SECT. II. Affection perfects civilization — its analogy with attraction — natural or arbitrary — modes of the latter — between the young — between the virtuous — promoted by the Institute — between parties differently actuated — lover and loved — high and low — king and subject — father and son — orders of affection — between patron and patronized — Creator and created — the proper aim of intellect — creation an operation of intellect — predestination — Muhammedan Trinity — circuitous transition | |
| SECT. III. Good and bad civilization — orders among the governed — degrees and process of perception — the treatment to be regulated accordingly — corrupt classes | |
| SECT. IV. Grandeur of sovereignty — good and bad government — spirit of the age — qualifications for reigning — political harmony — empire of opinion — dissensions among adversaries — classes of the state — the learned — the martial — the mercantile — the agricultural, &c. — prevention the end of punishment — species of — rights and benefits — public and private wrongs — access to the sovereign — anecdotes of Pharaoh — rules for the sovereign — internal relations — external relations — how to prevent war — how to carry it on — sanctity of mercy | |
| SECT. V. Rules for behaviour to those in authority | |
| SECT. VI. Friendship ensures affection and its results — nature and value of — rules for commencing and conducting | |
| SECT. VII. Intercourse with the remaining classes — enemies, secret and declared — moderation — indifferent parties — conciliation — inferiors — kindness | |
| CONCLUSION OR EPILOGUE. | |
| PART I. Platonic Maxims on Ethics | 450 |
| PART II. Aristotelian Maxims on Politics | 452 |
| APPENDIX. The Laws of Harmony, omitted from Book I. Sect. v. | 458 |
| ADDENDA, &c. | 465 |
| INDEX | 471 |
| INDEX OF PROPER NAMES | 494 |