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Title: A Problem in Modern Ethics
being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion,
addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists

Author: John Addington Symonds

Release Date: May 29, 2010 [EBook #32588]

Language: English

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A PROBLEM IN MODERN ETHICS

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_No._

A

PROBLEM IN MODERN ETHICS

BEING

_AN INQUIRY INTO THE PHENOMENON
OF SEXUAL INVERSION_

ADDRESSED ESPECIALLY TO MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS
AND JURISTS

BY

JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS

LONDON

1896

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

LIST OF BOOKS CONSULTED vii

INTRODUCTION 1

I. CHRISTIAN OPINION FROM THE AGE OF JUSTINIAN 5

II. VULGAR ERRORS 9

III. LITERATURE: PORNOGRAPHIC AND DESCRIPTIVE:
Carlier, _Les deux Prostitutions_ 16

IV. LITERATURE: MEDICO-FORENSIC: _Tardieu_ 21

V. LITERATURE: MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGICAL: Moreau, Tarnowsky,
Krafft-Ebing, Lombroso 29

VI. LITERATURE: HISTORICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL:
Meier, "A Problem in Greek Ethics"; Rosenbaum,
Bastian, Herbert Spencer, Sir Richard Burton,
Mantegazza 75

VII. LITERATURE: POLEMICAL: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs 84

VIII. LITERATURE: IDEALISTIC: Walt Whitman 115

IX. EPILOGUE 126

X. SUGGESTIONS UPON LEGISLATION 131

BOOKS CONSULTED.

GIBBON'S =History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.= Chapter
XLIV.

F. CARLIER. =Les deux Prostitutions.