# The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings

Author: Abercrombie, John, 1780-1844

Genre: Philosophy

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22364

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Philosophy+of+the+Moral+Feelings+Abercrombie&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Man is to be contemplated as an intellectual, and as a moral being. By his intellectual powers, he acquires the knowledge of facts, observes their connexions, and traces the conclusions which arise out of them. These mental operations, however, even in a high state of cultivation, may be directed entirely to truths of an extrinsic kind,--that is, to such as do not exert any influence either on the moral condition of the individual, or on his relations to other sentient beings. They may exist in an eminent degree in the man who lives only for himself, and feels little beyond the personal wants, or the selfish enjoyments of the hour that is passing over him.

## Chapters

- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-philosophy-of-the-moral-feelings-22364/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-philosophy-of-the-moral-feelings-22364/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-philosophy-of-the-moral-feelings-22364/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-philosophy-of-the-moral-feelings-22364/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-philosophy-of-the-moral-feelings-22364/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-philosophy-of-the-moral-feelings-22364/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-philosophy-of-the-moral-feelings-22364/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-philosophy-of-the-moral-feelings-22364/chapters/2/index.md)