Premium
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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PART I. Of the PROPRIETY of ACTION.
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SECTION I. Of the Sense of Propriety.
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CHAP. I. Of Sympathy.
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CHAP. II. Of the Pleasure of mutual Sympathy.
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CHAP. III. 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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CHAP. IV. The same subject continued.
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CHAP. V. Of the amiable and respectable virtues.
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SECTION II. Of the degrees of the different passions which are consistent with propriety.
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INTRODUCTION.
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CHAP. I. Of the passions which take their origin from the body.
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CHAP. II. Of those passions which take their origin from a particular turn or habit of the imagination.
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CHAP. III. Of the unsocial passions.
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CHAP. IV. Of the social passions.
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CHAP. V. Of the selfish passions.
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SECTION III. 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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CHAP. I. 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.
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CHAP. II. Of the origin of ambition, and of the distinction of ranks.
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CHAP. III. Of the stoical philosophy.
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PART II. Of Merit and Demerit; or, of the Objects of Reward and Punishment.
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SECTION I. Of the sense of merit and demerit.
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CHAP. I. 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.
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CHAP. II. Of the proper objects of gratitude and resentment.
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CHAP. III. 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 perso
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CHAP. IV. Recapitulation of the foregoing Chapters.
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CHAP. V. The analysis of the sense of merit and demerit.
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SECTION II. Of justice and beneficence.
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CHAP. I. Comparison of those two virtues.
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CHAP. II. Of the sense of justice, of remorse, and of the consciousness of merit.
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CHAP. III. Of the utility of this constitution of nature.
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SECTION III. Of the influence of fortune upon the sentiments of mankind, with regard to the merit or demerit of actions.
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CHAP. I. Of the causes of this influence of fortune.
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CHAP. II. Of the extent of this influence of fortune.
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CHAP. III. Of the final cause of this irregularity of sentiments.
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PART III. Of the foundation of our judgments concerning our own sentiments and conduct, and of the sense of duty.
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CHAP. I. Of the consciousness of merited praise or blame.
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CHAP. II. 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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CHAP. III. Of the influence and authority of the general rules of morality, and that they are justly regarded as the laws of the Deity.
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CHAP. IV. 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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PART IV. Of the Effect of Utility upon the sentiment of approbation.
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CHAP. I. 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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CHAP. II. 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.
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PART V. Of the Influence of Custom and Fashion upon the sentiments of moral approbation and disapprobation.
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CHAP. I. Of the influence of custom and fashion upon our notions of beauty and deformity.
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CHAP. II. Of the influence of custom and fashion upon moral sentiments.
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PART VI. Of Systems of Moral Philosophy.
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SECTION I. Of the questions which ought to be examined in a theory of moral sentiments.
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SECTION II. Of the different accounts which have been given of the nature of virtue.
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CHAP. I. Of those systems which make virtue consist in propriety.
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CHAP. II. Of those systems which make virtue consist in prudence.
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CHAP. III. Of those systems which make virtue consist in benevolence.
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CHAP. IV. Of licentious systems.
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SECTION III. Of the different systems which have been formed concerning the principle of approbation.
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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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SECTION IV. Of the manner in which different authors have treated of the practical rules of morality.
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CONSIDERATIONS Concerning the FIRST FORMATION OF LANGUAGES, AND THE Different Genius of original and compounded LANGUAGES.
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