A review of the principal questions and difficulties in morals
Subtitle: particularly those relating to the original of our ideas of virtue, its nature, foundation, reference to the diety, obligation, subject matter, and sanctions
By: by Richard Price
Edition: 2nd ed., corrected.
Publisher: Printed for T. Cadell
Published: 1769
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Ethics; Early works to 1800; Christian ethics
Notes: Gift; Thomas Hollis; 26 September 1770.

The gift of Thomas Hollis to the Harvard College Library.

Bound in three-quarter brown calf and marbled boards, edges red.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Of the original of our ideas of right and wrong; title: Of our ideas of the beauty and deformity of actions; title: Of the original of our desires and affections; title: Of our ideas of good and ill desert; title: Of the reference of morality to the Divine Nature, the rectitude of our faculties, and the grounds of belief; title: Of fitness and moral obligation and the various forms of expression which have been used by different writers in explaining morality; title: Of the subject matter of virtue or its principal heads and divisions; title: Of the nature and essentials of virtue in practice, as distinguished from absolute virtue, and particularly of the intention accompanying the practice of virtue or the principle of action in a virtuous agent as such; title: Of the different degrees of virtue and vice and the methods of estimating them; of difficulties attending the practice of virtue, the use of trial in forming reasonable beings to virtue, and the essentials of a good and bad character; title: The account of morality given in this treatise, applied to the explication and proof of some of the principal doctrines of natural religion, particularly the moral attributes of God, his moral government, and a future state of rewards and punishments; title: The conclusion.