Of the effects of profperity and adverfity upon the judgment of mankind with regard to the propriety of action; and why it is more eafy to obtain their approbation in the one ftate than in the other 71 CHAP. I. That though our Sympathy with farrow is generally a more lively fenfation than our fympathy with joy, it commonly falls much more fhort of the violence of what is naturally felt by the perfon principally con cerned 71 CHAP. II. Of the origin of ambition, and of the diftinction of ranks CHAP. III. Of the ftoical philofophy 83 99 Of Merit and Demerit; or of the objects of reward and punishment. SECTION I Of the fenfe of merit and demerit 109 CHAP. I. That whatever appears to be the próper object of gratitude, appears to dejerve reward; and that, in the fame manner, what>ever appears to be the proper object of refentment, appears to deferve puniflment 110 CHAP. II of the proper objects of gratitude and refentment A114 CHAP. III. That where there is no approbation of the conduct of the perfon who confers the benefit, there is little fympathy with the gratitude of him who receives it: and that, on the contrary, where there is no dif approbation of the motives of the perfon who does the mischief, there is no fort of Sympathy with the refentment of him who fuffers it. 118 CHAP. IV. Recapitulation of the foregoing chapters 121 CHAP. V. The analysis of the fenfe of merit and demerit SECTION II. Of juftice and beneficence. 124 CHAP. I. Comparison of those two virtues. 132 CHAP. II. Of the fenfe of justice, of remorse, and of the confciousness of merit CHAP. III. Of the utility of this conftitution of nature SECTION 140 146 III. Of the influence of fortune upon the fentiments of mankind, with regard to the merit or demerit of actions 161 CHAP. I. Of the caufe of this influence of fortune 164 CHAP. I. Of the consciousness of merited praife CHAP. II. In what manner our own judgments CHAP. IV. In what cafes the fenfe of duty ought to be the fole principle of our conduct; CHAP, I. Of the beauty which the appearance of Utility beflows upon all the productions of art, and of the extenfive influence of this Species of beauty 263 CHAP. II. Of the beauty which the appearance of utility beflows 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 278 Of the influence of cuftom and fashion upon the fentiments of moral approbation and difapprobation. CHAP. I. Of the influence of custom and fashion upon our notions of beauty and deformity. 291 CHAP, II. Of the influence of cuftom and fashion upon moral fentiments 303 Of Syftems of Moral Philofophy. SECTION I Of the queftions which ought to be examined in a theory of moral fentiments. 325 Of the different accounts which have been given to the nature of virtue 328 CHAP. I. Of those fyftems which make virtu confift in propriety CHAP. II. 330 Of those fyftems which make virtue confift in prudence 348 CHAP. III. Of thofe fyftems which make vir tue confift in benevolence CHAP. IV. Of licentious fyftems SECTION 359 379 III. Of the different fyftems which have been formed concerning the principle of appro bation. CHAP. I. Of thofe fyftems which deduce the principle of approbation from felf-love 388 CHAP. II. Of those fyftems which make reason, the principle of approbation 393 CHAP. III. Of thofe fyftems which make fentiment the principle of approbation SECTION IV. 399 Of the manner in which different authors have treated of the practical rules of morality. Confiderations concerning the firft formation of Languages, and the different genius of origi nal and compounded Languages 437 |