Francis Hutcheson : Selected Philosophical Writings.

Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Publisher information -- Series Editor's Note -- Editor's Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Body matter -- 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 o -- 4. The Passions &amp -- 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 &amp -- 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 &amp -- 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 -- Back matter -- Also available.

Known today mainly as a teacher of Adam Smith (1723-90) and an influence on David Hume (1711-76), Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) was a first-rate thinker whose work deserves study on its own merit. While his most important contribution to the history of ideas was likely his theory of an innate sense of morality, Hutcheson also wrote on a wide variety of other subjects, including art, psychology, law, politics, economics, metaphysics, and logic. Spanning his entire literary career, this collection brings together selections from Hutcheson's greater and lesser known works, including his youthful "Thoughts" (1725) on Thomas Hobbes' (1588-1679) egoistic theory of laughter.

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