Francis Hutcheson电子书

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1. The Sense of Beauty

From Of Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design

Sect. I. Concerning some powers of perception, distinct from what is generally understood by sensation

Sect. II. Of original or absolute beauty

Sect. III. Of the beauty of theorems

Sect. V. Concerning our reasonings about design and wisdom in the cause from the beauty or regularity of effects

Sect. VI. Of the universality of the sense of beauty among men

Sect. VII. Of the power of custom, education, and example, as to our internal senses

Sect. VIII. Of the importance of the internal senses in life, and the final causes of them

2. The Nature of Laughter

From writings from the Dublin Journal

‘Reflections upon Laughter’

‘Remarks upon the Fable of the Bees’

3. The Moral Sense

From An Inquiry Concerning Moral Good and Evil

Introduction

Sect. I. Of the moral sense by which we perceive virtue and vice, and approve or disapprove them in others

Sect. II. Concerning the immediate motive to virtuous actions

Sect. III. The sense of virtue, and the various opinions about it, reducible to one general foundation. The manner of computing the morality of actions

From Illustrations on the Moral Sense

How far a regard to the deity is necessary to make an action virtuous. ‘What degrees of affection necessary to innocence’

From An Inquiry Concerning Moral Good and Evil

Sect. IV. All mankind agree in this general foundation of their approbation of moral actions. The grounds of the different opinions about morals

Sect. V. A farther confirmation, that we have practical dispositions to virtue implanted in our nature; with a farther explication of our benevolent instincts of various kinds, with the additional motives of interest, viz. honour, shame, and pity. ‘Love of honour’ and ‘moral sense, not from love of honour’

4. The Passions & the Moral Life

From An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections

Sect. I. A general account of our several senses and desires, selfish or public

Sect. II. Of the affections and passions: the natural laws of pure affection: the confused sensations of the passions, with their final causes

Sect. IV. How far our several affections and passions are in our power, either to govern them when raised, or to prevent their arising: with some general observations about their objects

From A System of Moral Philosophy

Book I, Part II, Chapter VII. A comparison of the several sorts of enjoyment, and the opposite sorts of uneasiness, to find their importance to happiness

From An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections

Sect. VI. Some general conclusions concerning the best management of our desires. With some principles necessary to happiness

From A System of Moral Philosophy

Book I, Part I, Chapter 3. Concerning the ultimate determinations of the will, and benevolent affections. [The problem of conflict between calm self-love and calm benevolence]

Book I, Part I, Chapter 4. Concerning the moral sense, or faculty of perceiving moral excellence, and its objects. [The authority of the moral sense]

5. The Moral Life & God

From An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections

From Sect. VI. Some general conclusions concerning the best management of our desires. With some principles necessary to happiness. ‘Ideas of divinity arise from the internal senses’

From Illustrations on the Moral Sense

From Sect. VI. How far a regard to the deity is necessary to make an action virtuous

6. Reason’s Role in Morality

From Illustrations on the Moral Sense

Introduction

Sect. I. Concerning the character of virtue, agreeable to truth or reason

Sect. IV. Showing the use of reason concerning virtue and vice, upon supposition that we receive these ideas by a moral sense

Sect. V. Showing that virtue may have whatever is meant by merit... upon the supposition that it is perceived by a sense, and elected from affection or instinct

7. Natural Law & Political Philosophy

From A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy

Book II. Elements of the Law of Nature. Chapter I. Of the Law of Nature

Book II, Chapter II. Of the Nature of Rights and their Several Divisions

From An Inquiry Concerning Moral Good and Evil

Sect. VII. A deduction of some complex moral ideas, viz. of obligation, and right, perfect, imperfect, and external, alienable, and unalienable, from this moral sense. [Perfect rights, imperfect rights, and external rights]

From A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy

Book II, Chapter II. Of the Nature of Rights and their Several Divisions (cont.)

Book II, Chapter IV. Concerning the Natural Rights of Individuals

Book II, Chapter IX. Of Contracts in General

Book III. The Principles of Economic and Politics. Chapter I. Concerning Marriage

Book III, Chapter III. The Rights of Masters and Servants

Book III, Chapter IV. The Original of Civil Government

Book III, Chapter V. The Internal Structure of States: and the Several Parts of Supreme Power

Book III, Chapter VI. Of the Various Plans of Government

Book III, Chapter VII. The Rights of Supreme Power: and the Ways of Acquiring It

Book III, Chapter VIII. Of Civil Laws and their Execution

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