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AND MALICE |
SECT. X OF RESPECT AND CONTEMPT |
SECT. XI OF THE AMOROUS PASSION, OR LOVE BETWIXT THE SEXES |
SECT. XII OF THE LOVE AND HATRED OF ANIMALS |
PART III OF THE WILL AND DIRECT PASSIONS |
SECT. I OF LIBERTY AND NECESSITY |
SECT. II THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED |
SECT. III OF THE INFLUENCING MOTIVES OF THE WILL |
SECT. IV OF THE CAUSES OF THE VIOLENT PASSIONS |
SECT. V OF THE EFFECTS OF CUSTOM |
SECT. VI OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE IMAGINATION ON THE PASSIONS |
SECT. VII OF CONTIGUITY AND DISTANCE IN SPACE AND TIME |
SECT. VIII THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED |
SECT. IX OF THE DIRECT PASSIONS |
SECT. X OF CURIOSITY, OR THE LOVE OF TRUTH |
BOOK III OF MORALS |
PART I OF VIRTUE AND VICE IN GENERAL |
SECT. I MORAL DISTINCTIONS NOT DERIVED FROM REASON |
SECT. II MORAL DISTINCTIONS DERIVED FROM A MORAL SENSE |
PART II OF JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE |
SECT. I JUSTICE, WHETHER A NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL VIRTUE? |
SECT. II OF THE ORIGIN OF JUSTICE AND PROPERTY |
SECT. III OF THE RULES WHICH DETERMINE PROPERTY |
SECT. IV OF THE TRANSFERENCE OF PROPERTY BY CONSENT |
SECT. V OF THE OBLIGATION OF PROMISES |
SECT. VI SOME FARTHER REFLECTIONS CONCERNING JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE |
SECT. VII OF THE ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT |
SECT. VIII OF THE SOURCE OF ALLEGIANCE |
SECT. IX OF THE MEASURES OF ALLEGIANCE |
SECT. X OF THE OBJECTS OF ALLEGIANCE |
SECT. XI OF THE LAWS OF NATIONS |
SECT. XII OF CHASTITY AND MODESTY |
PART III OF THE OTHER VIRTUES AND VICES |
SECT. I OF THE ORIGIN OF THE NATURAL VIRTUES AND VICES |
SECT. II OF GREATNESS OF MIND |
SECT. III OF GOODNESS AND BENEVOLENCE |
SECT. IV OF NATURAL ABILITIES |
SECT. V SOME FARTHER REFLECTIONS CONCERNING THE NATURAL VIRTUES |
SECT. VI CONCLUSION OF THIS BOOK |
APPENDIX TO THE TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE |
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VOL. I OF THE UNDERSTANDING. |
ADVERTISEMENT. |
My design in the present work is sufficiently explained in the |
Introduction. The reader must only observe, that all the subjects I have |
there planned out to myself, are not treated of in these two volumes. |
The subjects of the Understanding and Passions make a compleat chain |
of reasoning by themselves; and I was willing to take advantage of this |
natural division, in order to try the taste of the public. If I have the |
good fortune to meet with success, I shall proceed to the examination |
of Morals, Politics, and Criticism; which will compleat this Treatise of |
Human Nature. The approbation of the public I consider as the greatest |
reward of my labours; but am determined to regard its judgment, whatever |
it be, as my best instruction. |
INTRODUCTION. |
Nothing is more usual and more natural for those, who pretend to |
discover anything new to the world in philosophy and the sciences, than |
to insinuate the praises of their own systems, by decrying all those, |
which have been advanced before them. And indeed were they content with |
lamenting that ignorance, which we still lie under in the most important |
questions, that can come before the tribunal of human reason, there are |
few, who have an acquaintance with the sciences, that would not readily |
agree with them. It is easy for one of judgment and learning, to |
perceive the weak foundation even of those systems, which have obtained |
the greatest credit, and have carried their pretensions highest |
to accurate and profound reasoning. Principles taken upon trust, |
consequences lamely deduced from them, want of coherence in the parts, |
and of evidence in the whole, these are every where to be met with in |