Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics / With Some of Their Applications

The essays reject utilitarian reduction of morality to pleasure and defend common-sense ethical instincts alongside a living religious spirit rather than mere doctrinal form. They scrutinize the limits of scientific methods when applied to history and metaphysics and reassess skeptical metaphysical claims. The author challenges materialist and scientific-atheist tendencies, examining where theism can and cannot be demonstrated. Across chapters, philosophical critique is repeatedly tied to practical moral and social applications, advocating a restrained metaphysics and an ethics rooted in everyday judgment rather than speculative systems.