The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Of the propriety of action

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Of merit and demerit; or of the objects of reward and punishment

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Of the foundation of our judgments concerning our own sentiments and conduct, and of the sense of duty

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Of the effect of utility upon the sentiments of approbation

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Of the SENSE of PROPRIETY

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Of the Pleasure of mutual Sympathy

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Of the manner in which we judge of the propriety or impropriety of the affections of other men, by their concord or dissonance with our own

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With regard to those objects which are considered without any peculiar relation

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With regard to those objects, which affect in a particular manner either ourselves or the person whose sentiments we judge of

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Of the amiable and respectable virtues

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Of the degrees of the different passions which are consistent with propriety

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Of the passions which take their origin from the body

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Of those passions which take their origin from a particular turn or habit of the imagination

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Of the unsocial passions

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Of the social passions

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Of the selfish passions

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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 approbation in the one state than in the other

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Of the origin of ambition, and of the distinction of ranks

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Of the stoical philosophy

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Of merit and demerit; or, of the objects of reward and punishment

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That whatever appears to be the proper object of gratitude, appears to deserve reward

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Of the proper objects of gratitude and resentment

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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

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Recapitulation of the foregoing Chapters

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The analysis of the sense of merit and demerit

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Of justice and beneficence

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Of the sense of justice, of remorse, and of the consciousness of merit

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Of the utility of this constitution of nature

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Of the influence of fortune upon the sentiments of mankind, with regard to the merit or demerit of actions

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Of the causes of this influence of fortune

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Of the extent of this influence of fortune

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Of the final cause of this irregularity of sentiments

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Of the consciousness of merited praise or blame

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In what manner our own judgments refer to what ought to be the judgments of others: and of the origin of general rules

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Two different sets of philosophers

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The general rules of morality are formed

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Of the influence and authority of the general rules of morality

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general rules of morality

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religion enforces the natural sense of duty

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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

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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

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Of the beauty which the appearance of utility bestows upon the characters and actions of men

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Of the influence of custom and fashion upon our notions of beauty and deformity

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Of the influence of custom and fashion upon moral sentiments

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The different situations of different ages and countries

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The different manners which custom teaches us to approve of in the different professions and states of life

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particular usages

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

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

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Of those systems which make virtue consist in propriety

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Of those systems which make virtue consist in propriety

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Of those systems which make virtue consist in prudence

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Of those systems which make virtue consist in benevolence

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Of licentious systems

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Luxury and lust

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Fable of the Bees

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INTRODUCTION

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CHAP. I. Of those systems which deduce the principle of approbation from self-love

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CHAP. II. Of those systems which make reason the principle of approbation

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CHAP. III. Of those systems which make sentiment the principle of approbation

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Of the manner in which different authors have treated of the practical rules of morality

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The second set of moralists

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The breaches of moral duty

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Breach of veracity

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The chief subjects of the works of the casuists

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Natural jurisprudence

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Concerning the First Formation of Languages

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The Different Genius of Original and Compounded Languages

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declensions and conjugations

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personal pronouns

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mixture of several languages

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the Greek, Latin, French, Italian, and English languages

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simplification of languages

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transposing the order of their words

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

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