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CHAPTER SECOND.
Of the Moral Faculty
General Observations on the Moral Faculty, tending chiefly to
show that it is an original Principle of our Nature, and
not resolvable into any other Principle or Principles more
general
CHAPTER THIRD.
Continuation of the Subject.-Examination of some Objections
to the foregoing Conclusions
CHAPTER FOURTH.
Continuation of the Remarks on the Objections stated by dif
ferent Writers to the Reality and Immutability of Moral
Distinctions, and to the Universality of the Moral Faculty
among Mankind
CHAPTER FIFTH.
Analysis of our Moral Perceptions and Emotions
SECTION I. Of the Perception of Right and Wrong
SECTION II. Of the agreeable and disagreeable Emotions
arising from the Perception of what is Right and Wrong
in Conduct
SECTION III. Of the Perception of Merit and Demerit
CHAPTER SIXTH.
Of Moral Obligation
CHAPTER SEVENTH.
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116
134
156
161
182
194
199
Of certain Principles which cooperate with our Moral Powers
in their Influence on the Conduct
208
SECTION I-Of Decency, or a regard to Character
SECTION II.-Of Sympathy
209
SECTION III.-Of the Sense of the Ridiculous
214
SECTION IV.-Of Taste, considered in its relation to Morals
217
BOOK THIRD.
OF THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF OUR DUTY
222
CHAPTER FIRST.
Of the Duties which respect the Deity
Preliminary Inquiry into the Principles of Natural Religion
Of the Existence of the Deity
SECTION I. Of the Foundations of our Reasoning from
the Effect to the Cause, and of the Evidences of Active
Power exhibited in the Universe
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SECTION II. Of the Argument for the Existence of God
from Final Causes
SECTION III. Conclusion of the Argument for the Existence
223
230
252
SECTION IV.-Digression with respect to the Use and Abuse
of the Speculation concerning Final Causes in Philo-
sophical Inquiries
310
Of the Moral Attributes of the Deity
325
SECTION I. Of the Evidences of Benevolent Design in the
Universe
326
Of the Evidences of the Moral Government of the Deity
360
Of a Future State
366
SECTION I-Of the Argument for a Future State derived
from the Nature of Mind
SECTION II. Of the Evidences for a Future State arising
from the Human Constitution, and from the circumstan-
ces in which Man is placed
Of the Duties which respect Ourselves
General Remarks on this Class of our Duties
SECTION I. Of the Duty of employing the Means we pos-
sess to secure our own Happiness
SECTION II.-Of Happiness.
Schools on the Subject
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488
Systems of the Grecian
490
509
510
521
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537
542
543
548
549
550
552
SECTION III.-Additional Remarks on Happinesss
I.-Influence of the Temper on Happiness
II.-Influence of the Imagination on Happiness
III.-Influence of Opinions on Happiness
IV. Influence of Habits on Happiness
SECTION IV.-Continuation of the same Subject
I.-Pleasures of Activity and of Repose
II.-Pleasures of Sense
III.-Pleasures of the Imagination
IV. Pleasures of the Understanding
V.-Pleasures of the Heart
SECTION I. Of the different Theories which have been
formed concerning the Object of Moral Approbation
SECTION II.-Of the General Definition of Virtue
SECTION III.-On an Ambiguity in the words Right and
Wrong, Virtue and Vice
SECTION IV.-Of the Office and Use of Reason in the Prac-
tice of Morality.
564
APPENDIX I.
OF MAN'S FREE AGENCY.
SECTION I.-Preliminary Observations.-Explanation of
some Ambiguous Terms
SECTION II.-Statement of the common Argument for Ne-
cessity
SECTION III.-View of the question given by Hobbes
SECTION IV.-Argument for Necessity, proposed by Leib-
nitz
SECTION V.-Defence of the Scheme of Necessity by Col-
lins and Edwards.-Contrasts between their Views and
those of later Necessitarians
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584
SECTION VI.-Is the Evidence of Consciousness in favor of
the Scheme of Free Will, or that of Necessity?
SECTION VII. Of the Schemes of Free Will and of Necessi-
ty, considered as influencing Practice
589
593
SECTION VIII.-On the Argument for Necessity, drawn from
the Prescience of the Deity
596
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