Illustrations on the Moral Sense / / Francis Hutcheson; ed. by Bernard Peach.

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• VerfasserIn: Hutcheson, Francis,
• HerausgeberIn: Peach, Bernard,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1971
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)

The writings of Francis Hutcheson played a central role in the development of British moral philosophy in the eighteenth century. His Illustrations on the Moral Sense is significant not only historically but also for its exploration of problems of concern in contemporary ethics. Yet except for brief...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• Editor’s Introduction
• Illustrations on the Moral Sense
• Preface to An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections with Illustrations on the Moral Sense
• Contents
• Introduction
• Section I. Concerning the character of virtue, agreeable to truth or reason
• Section II. Concerning that character of virtue and vice, the fitness or unfitness of actions
• Section III. Mr. Wollaston’s significancy of truth, as the idea of virtue, considered
• Section IV. Showing the use of reason concerning virtue and vice, upon supposition that we receive these ideas by a moral sense
• Section V. Showing that virtue may have whatever is meant by merit and be rewardable upon the supposition that it is perceived by a sense and elected from affection or instinct
• Section VI. How far a regard to the Deity is necessary to make an action virtuous
• Appendix. The Correspondence between Gilbert Burnet and Francis Hutcheson
• Index