PUBLIC LIBRARY

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-ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899.

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CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

PART V.

Of the INFLUENCE of CUSTOM and FA-
SHION upon the Sentiments of Moral
Approbation and Disapprobation.

CHAP. I. Of the Influence of Cuftom and Fashion upon
our notions of Beauty and Deformity.

Page 1

CHAP. II. Of the Influence of Cuftom and Fashion upon

Moral Sentiments.

18

PART

PART VI.

Of the CHARACTER of VIRTUE.

INTRODUCTION.

Page 49

SECTION I.

Of the Character of the Individual, fo far as it
affects his own Happiness; or of Prudence.

50

SECTION II.

Of the Character of the Individual, fo far as it
can affect the Happiness of other People.

INTRODUCTION.

66

69

CHAP. I. Of the Order in which Individuals are recom-
mended by Nature to our Care and Attention.
CHAP. II. Of the Order in which Societies are by Nature

recommended to our Beneficence.

CHAP. III. Of univerfal Benevolence.

93

113

SECTION III.

Of Self-command.

CONCLUSION of the SIXTH PART.

120

187

PART

VII.

Of SYSTEMS of MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

SECTION I

Of the Questions which ought to be examined
in a Theory of Moral Sentiments. Page 195

SECTION II.

Of the different Accounts which have been given
of the Nature of Virtue.

INTRODUCTION.

199

CHAP. I. Of thofe Syftems which make Virtue confift in

Propriety.

202

CHAP. II. Of thofe Systems which make Virtue confift in

Prudence.

268

CHAP. III. Of thofe Syftems which make. Virtue confift

in Benevolence.

CHAP. IV. Of licentious Syftems,

284

300

SEC-

SECTION III.

Of the different Systems which have been form-
ed concerning the Principle of Approbation.

INTRODUCTION.

Page 323

CHAP. I. Of thofe Syftems which deduce the Principle of
Approbation from Self-love.

325

CHAP. II. Of thofe Systems which make Reason the
Principle of Approbation.

332

CHAP. III. Of thofe Systems which make Sentiment the
Principle of Approbation.

341

SECTION IV.

Of the Manner in which different Authors have
treated of the practical Rules of Morality. 359

Confiderations concerning the first Formation of Languages,
and the different Genius of original and compounded
Languages.

401

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