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Index
Cover
Front matter
Title page
Publisher information
Series Editor’s Note
Editor’s Acknowledgements
Introduction
Body matter
1. The Sense of Beauty
From Of Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design
Sect. I. Concerning some powers of perception, distinct from what is generally understood by sensation
Sect. II. Of original or absolute beauty
Sect. III. Of the beauty of theorems
Sect. V. Concerning our reasonings about design and wisdom in the cause from the beauty or regularity of effects
Sect. VI. Of the universality of the sense of beauty among men
Sect. VII. Of the power of custom, education, and example, as to our internal senses
Sect. VIII. Of the importance of the internal senses in life, and the final causes of them
2. The Nature of Laughter
From writings from the Dublin Journal
‘Reflections upon Laughter’
‘Remarks upon the Fable of the Bees’
3. The Moral Sense
From An Inquiry Concerning Moral Good and Evil
Introduction
Sect. I. Of the moral sense by which we perceive virtue and vice, and approve or disapprove them in others
Sect. II. Concerning the immediate motive to virtuous actions
Sect. III. The sense of virtue, and the various opinions about it, reducible to one general foundation. The manner of computing the morality of actions
From Illustrations on the Moral Sense
How far a regard to the deity is necessary to make an action virtuous. ‘What degrees of affection necessary to innocence’
From An Inquiry Concerning Moral Good and Evil
Sect. IV. All mankind agree in this general foundation of their approbation of moral actions. The grounds of the different opinions about morals
Sect. V. A farther confirmation, that we have practical dispositions to virtue implanted in our nature; with a farther explication of our benevolent instincts of various kinds, with the additional motives of interest, viz. honour, shame, and pity. ‘Love of honour’ and ‘moral sense, not from love of honour’
4. The Passions & the Moral Life
From An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections
Sect. I. A general account of our several senses and desires, selfish or public
Sect. II. Of the affections and passions: the natural laws of pure affection: the confused sensations of the passions, with their final causes
Sect. IV. How far our several affections and passions are in our power, either to govern them when raised, or to prevent their arising: with some general observations about their objects
From A System of Moral Philosophy
Book I, Part II, Chapter VII. A comparison of the several sorts of enjoyment, and the opposite sorts of uneasiness, to find their importance to happiness
From An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections
Sect. VI. Some general conclusions concerning the best management of our desires. With some principles necessary to happiness
From A System of Moral Philosophy
Book I, Part I, Chapter 3. Concerning the ultimate determinations of the will, and benevolent affections. [The problem of conflict between calm self-love and calm benevolence]
Book I, Part I, Chapter 4. Concerning the moral sense, or faculty of perceiving moral excellence, and its objects. [The authority of the moral sense]
5. The Moral Life & God
From An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections
From Sect. VI. Some general conclusions concerning the best management of our desires. With some principles necessary to happiness. ‘Ideas of divinity arise from the internal senses’
From Illustrations on the Moral Sense
From Sect. VI. How far a regard to the deity is necessary to make an action virtuous
6. Reason’s Role in Morality
From Illustrations on the Moral Sense
Introduction
Sect. I. Concerning the character of virtue, agreeable to truth or reason
Sect. IV. Showing the use of reason concerning virtue and vice, upon supposition that we receive these ideas by a moral sense
Sect. V. Showing that virtue may have whatever is meant by merit... upon the supposition that it is perceived by a sense, and elected from affection or instinct
7. Natural Law & Political Philosophy
From A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy
Book II. Elements of the Law of Nature. Chapter I. Of the Law of Nature
Book II, Chapter II. Of the Nature of Rights and their Several Divisions
From An Inquiry Concerning Moral Good and Evil
Sect. VII. A deduction of some complex moral ideas, viz. of obligation, and right, perfect, imperfect, and external, alienable, and unalienable, from this moral sense. [Perfect rights, imperfect rights, and external rights]
From A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy
Book II, Chapter II. Of the Nature of Rights and their Several Divisions (cont.)
Book II, Chapter IV. Concerning the Natural Rights of Individuals
Book II, Chapter IX. Of Contracts in General
Book III. The Principles of Economic and Politics. Chapter I. Concerning Marriage
Book III, Chapter III. The Rights of Masters and Servants
Book III, Chapter IV. The Original of Civil Government
Book III, Chapter V. The Internal Structure of States: and the Several Parts of Supreme Power
Book III, Chapter VI. Of the Various Plans of Government
Book III, Chapter VII. The Rights of Supreme Power: and the Ways of Acquiring It
Book III, Chapter VIII. Of Civil Laws and their Execution
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