The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, an Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves. To which is Added, a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages, כרך 2J. J. Tourneisen, 1793 - 543 עמודים |
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abftract admiration affections againſt agreeable almoft altogether approbation beauty becauſe benevolence beſt cafes character Cicero conduct confequence confider confiderable confifts conftitution converſation cuftom deferve defire difagreeable difpofed diftinct eaſe eaſily endeavours Engliſh Epicurus eſtabliſhed eſteem exceffive expofed expreffed faid fame manner faſhion favage fecurity feel feems feldom fenfe fenfibility fentiments fhould firft firſt fituation fociety fome fome degree fometimes fpecies friendſhip ftate ftill fubftantive fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fuperiority fuppofed fupport fyftem fympathy greateſt happineſs higheſt himſelf human impartial fpectator injuftice intereft itſelf juftice language leaſt lefs leſs magnanimity meaſure mind moft moral moſt muſt nature neceffarily neceffary never notwithſtanding obferved objects occafions ourſelves paffions particular perfons philofophers Plato pleaſure prepofitions principle profeffion proper propriety purpoſe reaſon refpect regard reſemblance ſeems ſenſe ſome ſpirit ſtate ſyſtem themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion univerſe uſe vanity verbs virtue virtuous weakneſs whofe whoſe wiſdom wiſhes word
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עמוד 276 - And thus, those words, which were originally the proper names of individuals, would each of them insensibly become the common name of a multitude.
עמוד 229 - The general maxims of morality are formed, like all other general maxims, from experience and induction. We observe in a great variety of particular cases what pleases or displeases our moral faculties, what these approve or disapprove of; and by induction from this experience we establish those general rules.
עמוד 278 - It is this application of the name of an individual to a great multitude of objects, whose resemblance naturally recalls the idea of that individual, and of the name which expresses it, that seems originally to have given occasion to the formation of those classes and assortments, which, in the schools, are called genera and species, and of which the ingenious and eloquent M.
עמוד 69 - We do not love our country merely as a part of the great society of mankind; we love it for its own sake, and independently of any such consideration.
עמוד 80 - The wise and virtuous man is at all times willing that his own private interest should be sacrificed to the public interest of his own particular order or society.
עמוד 230 - But though reason is undoubtedly the source of the general rules of morality. and of all the moral judgments which we form by means of them...
עמוד 272 - I should in another discourse endeavour to give an account of the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions which they had undergone in the different ages and periods of society; not only in what concerns justice, but in what concerns police, revenue, and arms, and whatever else is the object of law.
עמוד 71 - Every individual is naturally more attached to his own particular order or society, than to any other. His own interest, his own vanity, the interest and vanity of many of his friends and companions, are commonly a good deal connected with it. He is ambitious to extend its privileges and immunities. He is zealous to defend them against the encroachments of every other order of society.
עמוד 26 - Fortune never exerted more cruelly her empire over mankind, than when she subjected those nations of heroes to the refuse of the jails of Europe, to wretches who possess the virtues neither of the countries which they come from, nor of those which they go to, and whose levity, brutality, and baseness, expose them to the contempt of the vanquished.
עמוד 76 - ... the inconveniences which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but, like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system of laws, he will endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear.