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Contents
1 Part I 1
1.1 Of the Sense of Propriety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1.1 Of Sympathy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1.2 Of the Pleasure of mutual Sympathy . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1.3 Of the manner in which we judge of the propriety or impropriety
of the affections of other men, by their concord
or dissonance with out own. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.1.4 The same subject continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.1.5 Of the amiable and respectable virtues . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.2 Of the Degrees of the different Passions which are consistent
with Propriety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.2.1 Of the Passions which take their origin from the body . 17
1.2.2 Of those Passions which take their origin from a particular
turn or habit of the Imagination . . . . . . . . . . . 21
1.2.3 Of the unsocial Passions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1.2.4 Of the social Passions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
1.2.5 Of the selfish Passions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
1.3 Of the Effects of Prosperity and Adversity upon the Judgment
of Mankind with regard to the Propriety of Action; and why it
is more easy to obtain their Aprobation in the one state than in
the other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
1.3.1 That though our sympathy with sorrow is generally a
more lively sensation than our sympathy with joy, it commonly
falls much more short of the violence of what is
naturally felt by the person principally concerned . . . . 32
1.3.2 Of the origin of Ambition, and of the distinction of Ranks 38
1.3.3 Of the corruption of our moral sentiments, which is occasioned
by this disposition to admire the rich and the
great, and to despise or neglect persons of poor and mean
condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Part II 51
2.1 Of the Sense of Merit and Demerit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
2.1.1 That whatever appears to be the proper object of gratitude,
appears to deserve reward; and that, in the same
manner, whatever appears to be the proper object of resentment
appears to deserve punishment . . . . . . . . . 52
2.1.2 Of the proper objects of gratitude and resentment . . . 53
2.1.3 That where there is no approbation of the conduct of the
person who confers the benefit, there is little sympathy
with the gratitude of him who receives it: and that, on
the contrary, where there is no disapprobation of the motives
of the person who does the mischief, there is no sort
of sympathy with the resentment of him who suffers it . 55
2.1.4 Recapitulation of the foregoing chapters . . . . . . . . . 57
2.1.5 The analysis of the sense of Merit and Demerit . . . . . 58
2.2 Of Justice and Beneficence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
2.2.1 Comparison of those two Virtues . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
2.2.2 Of the sense of Justice, of Remorse, and of the consciousness
of Merit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
2.2.3 Of the utility of this constitution of Nature . . . . . . . 69
2.3 Of the Influence of Fortune upon the Sentiments of Mankind,
with regard to the Merit or Demerit of Actions . . . . . . . . . 74
2.3.1 Of the causes of this Influence of Fortune . . . . . . . . 76
2.3.2 Of the extent of this Influence of Fortune . . . . . . . . 78
2.3.3 Of the final cause of this Irregularity of Sentiments . . . 85
3 Part III 89
3.1 Of the Principle of Self-approbation and of Self-disapprobation 89
3.2 Of the love of Praise, and of that of Praise-worthiness; and of
the dread of Blame, and of that of Blame-worthiness . . . . . . 92
3.3 Of the Influences and Authority of Conscience . . . . . . . . . . 107
3.4 Of the Nature of Self-deceit, and of the Origin and Use of general
Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
3.5 Of the Influence and Authority of the general Rules of Morality,
and that they are justly regarded as the Laws of the Deity . . . 130
3.6 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
4 Part IV 147
4.1 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.2 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
5 Part V 161
5.1 Of the Influence of Custom and Fashion upon our notions of
Beauty and Deformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
5.2 Of the Influence of Custom and Fashion upon Moral Sentiments 166
6 Part VI 177
6.1 Of the Character of the Individual, so far as it affects his own
Happiness; or of Prudence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
6.2 Of the Character of the Individual, so far as it can affect the
Happiness of other People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
6.2.1 Of the Order in which Individuals are recommended by
Nature to our care and attention . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
6.2.2 Of the order in which Societies are by nature recommended
to our Beneficence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
6.2.3 Of universal Benevolence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
6.3 Of Self-command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
7 Part VII 225
7.1 Of the Questions which ought to be examined in a Theory of
Moral Sentiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
7.2 Of the different Accounts which have been given of the Nature
of Virtue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
7.2.1 Of those Systems which make Virtue consist in Propriety 227
7.2.2 Of those Systems which make Virtue consist in Prudence 248
7.2.3 Of those Systems which make Virtue consist in Benevolence253
7.2.4 Of Licentious Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
7.3 Of the Different Systems which have been Formed Concerning
the Principle of Approbation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
7.3.1 Of those Systems which deduce the Principle of Approbation
from Self-love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
7.3.2 Of those Systems which make Reason the Principle of
Approbation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
7.3.3 Of those Systems which make Sentiment the Principle of
Approbation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
7.4 Of the Manner in which different Authors have treated of the
practical Rules of Morality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 |
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