The Theory of Moral Sentiments Or, an Essay/2 Volumes Bound in 1 Book

by Smith, Adam

• ISBN13: 9780895263636
• ISBN10: 0895263637
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Gateway Books

Summary

Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments is must reading for those who value living a free and moral life.

Table of Contents

Of The First Volume.
PART I.
Of the propriety of Action	1	(1)
SECTION I.
Of the sense of Propriety	1	(1)
Of Sympathy	1	(7)
Of the Pleasure of mutual Sympathy	8	(4)
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	12	(4)
The same subject continued	16	(7)
Of the amiable and respectable virtues	23	(6)
SECTION II.
Of the degrees of the different Passions which are consistent with Propriety	28	(1)
Introduction	28	(1)
Of the Passions which take their origin from the body	29	(5)
Of those Passions which take their origin from a particular turn or habit of the Imagination	34	(5)
Of the unsocial Passions	39	(7)
Of the social Passions	46	(3)
Of the selfish Passions	49	(5)
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	54	(1)
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	54	(9)
Of the origin of Ambition, and of the distinction of Ranks	63	(15)
Of the corruption of our moral sentiments, which is occasioned by this disposition to admire the rich and the great, and to despise or neglect persons of poor and mean condition	78	(8)
PART II.
Of Merit and Demerit; or, of the objects of reward and punishment	85	(1)
SECTION I.
Of the sense of Merit and Demerit	85	(1)
Introduction	85	(1)
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	86	(3)
Of the proper objects of gratitude and resentment	89	(3)
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 person who does the mischief, there is no sort of sympathy with the resentment of him who suffers it	92	(3)
Recapitulation of the foregoing chapters	95	(2)
The analysis of the sense of Merit and Demerit	97	(6)
SECTION II.
Of Justice and Beneficence	103	(1)
Comparison of those two virtues	103	(6)
Of the sense of Justice, of Remorse, and of the consciousness of Merit	109	(5)
Of the utility of this constitution of Nature	114	(11)
SECTION III.
Of the influence of fortune upon the sentiments of mankind, with regard to the merit or demerit of Actions	123	(1)
Introduction	123	(2)
Of the causes of this influence of Fortune	125	(5)
Of the extent of this influence of Fortune	130	(11)
Of the final cause of this Irregularity of Sentiments	141	(6)
PART III.
Of the foundation of our Judgments concerning our own Sentiments and conduct, and of the sense of Duty	147	(1)
Of the Principle of Self-approbation and of Self-disapprobation	147	(5)
Of the love of Praise, and of that of Praiseworthiness; and of the dread of Blame, and of that of Blameworthiness	152	(25)
Of the Influence and Authority of Conscience	177	(30)
Of the nature of Self-deceit, and of the Origin and Use of general Rules	207	(7)
Of the Influence and Authority of the general Rules of Morality, and that they are justly regarded as the Laws of the Deity	214	(14)
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	228	(13)
PART IV.
Of the effect of Utility upon the Sentiment of Approbation	241	(1)
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	241	(12)
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	253