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The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, an Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by Which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves. to Which Is Added, a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages.Smith, Adam

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The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, an Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by Which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves. to Which Is Added, a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages.

Name: The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, an Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by Which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves. to Which Is Added, a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages.
Author: Smith, Adam

Smith, Adam

Ethics -- Early works to 1800; Language and languages -- Early works to 1800

CHAP. III. _Of the influence and authority of the general rules
   of morality, and that they are justly regarded as the laws of
   the Deity_                                                        207

 CHAP. IV. _In what cases the sense of duty ought to be the sole
   principle of our conduct; and in what cases it ought to concur
   with other motives_                                               223


                                PART IV.

      Of the effect of utility upon the sentiments of approbation.

 CHAP. I. _Of the beauty which the appearance of Utility bestows
   upon all the productions of art, and of the extensive influence
   of this species of beauty_                                        237

 CHAP. II. _Of the beauty which the appearance of utility bestows
   upon the characters and actions of men; and how far the
   perception of this beauty may be regarded as one of the
   original principles of approbation_                               250


                                 PART V.

   Of the influence of custom and fashion upon the sentiments of moral
                     approbation and disapprobation.

 CHAP. I. _Of the influence of custom and fashion upon our notions
   of beauty and deformity_                                          261

 CHAP. II. _Of the influence of custom and fashion upon moral
   sentiments_                                                       271


                                PART VI.

                     Of Systems of Moral Philosophy.


                               SECTION I.

 Of the questions which ought to be examined in a theory of moral
   sentiments                                                        291


                               SECTION II.

 Of the different accounts which have been given of the nature of
   virtue                                                            294

 CHAP. I. _Of those systems which make virtue consist in
   propriety_                                                        295

 CHAP. II. _Of those systems which make virtue consist in
   prudence_                                                         311

 CHAP. III. _Of those systems which make virtue consist in
   benevolence_                                                      321

 CHAP. IV. _Of licentious systems_                                   331


                              SECTION III.

 Of the different systems which have been formed concerning the
   principle of approbation                                          345

 CHAP. I. _Of those systems which deduce the principle of
   approbation from self-love_                                       346

 CHAP. II. _Of those systems which make reason the principle of
   approbation_                                                      350

 CHAP. III. _Of those systems which make sentiment the principle
   of approbation_                                                   356

The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, an Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by Which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves. to Which Is Added, a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages.

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