An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition

Chapter 13

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_Of Systems of Moral Philosophy_.

Section I. _Of the questions which ought to be examined in a Theory of Moral Sentiments_.

Section II. _Of the different Accounts which have been given of the nature of Virtue_.

Introduction.

Chap. I. Of those systems which make Virtue consist in propriety.

Chap. II. Of those systems which make Virtue consist in prudence.

Chap. III. Of those systems which make Virtue consist in benevolence.

Chap. IV. Of licentious Systems.

Section III. _Of the different Systems which have been formed concerning the Principle of Approbation_.

Introduction.

Chap. I. Of those systems which deduce the principle of Approbation from Self-love.

Chap. II. Of those systems which make Reason the principle of Approbation.

Chap. III. Of those systems which make Sentiment the principle of Approbation.

Section IV. _Of the manner in which different Authors have treated of the Practical Rules of Morality_.

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