pt. 1. THE DECAY AND RESTORATION OF CIVILIZATION. How philosophy is responsible for the collapse of civilization ; Hindrances to civilization in our economic and spiritual life ; Civilization essentially ethical in character ; The way to the restoration of civilization ; Civilization and world-view

pt. 2. CIVILIZATION AND ETHICS. The crisis in civilization and its spiritual cause ; The problem of the optimistic world-view ; The ethical problem ; Religious and philosophical world-views ; Civilization and ethics in the Graeco-Roman philosophy ; Optimistic world-view and ethics in the Renaissance and post-Renaissance periods ; Laying the foundation of ethics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ; Laying the foundations of civilization in the age of rationalism ; The optimistic-ethical world-view in Kant ; Nature-philosophy and world-view in Spinoza and Leibniz ; J.G. Fichte's optimistic-ethical world-view ; Schiller, Goethe, Schleiermacher ; Hegel's supra-ethical optimistic world-view ; The later utilitarianism, biological and sociological ethics ; Schopenhauer and Nietzsche ; The issue of the Western struggle for a world-view ; The new way ; The foundations of optimism secured from the will-to-live ; The problems of ethics, starting from the history of ethics ; The ethics of self-devotion and the ethics of self-perfecting ; The ethics of reverence for life ; The civilizing power of the ethics of reverence for life.