Proem --The ethical systems of the ancients --The general principle of morality --De obligatione activa et passiva --Moral compulsion --Practical necessitation --Laws --The supreme principle or morality --De littera legis --The lawgiver --Reward and punishment --De imputatione --Responsibility for consequences of actions --Grounds of imputatio moralis --Imputatio facti --Degrees of responsibility--Introductory observations --Natural religion --Errors in religion --Unbelief --Trust in God and the concept of faith --Prayer --De culto externo--Example and pattern in religion --Stumbling blocks --Devoutness and the feeling of shame --Confession of faith : its limitations and conditions--Duties to oneself --Proper self respect --Conscience --Self love --Self mastery --Duties towards the body in regard to life --Suicide --Care for one's life --Duties torwards the body itself --Occupation --Shortening time --Duties towards the body in respect of sexual impulse --Crimina carnis --Duties towards ourselves in respect for external circumstances --Wealth --The attachment of the mind to wealth (greed and avarice) --Thrift --The two impulses of our nature and their concomitant duties --Duties towards others --Friendship --Enmity --Duties dictated by justice --Equity --Innocence --Injury --Vengeance --The slanderer --Jealousy and its offspring --envy and grudge --Ethical duties towards others : truthfulness --Poverty and charity --Social virtues --Haughtiness --Scoffing --Duties towards animals and spirits --Duties towards inanimate objects --Duties towards particular classes of human beings --Duties of the virtuous and the vicious --The ultimate destiny of the human race.