On the Nature and Conduct of the Passions with Illustrations on Moral Sense, 1728
On the Nature and Conduct of the Passions with Illustrations on Moral Sense, 1728

Author: Francis Hutcheson

Publisher: Clinamen Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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A work dealing with the bases of morality and virtue, both public and private. Hutcheson argues that the natural inclination of the human being is to be virtuous, since the pleasures of being virtuous are the greatest we can experience. Individual human beings have a common inbuilt morality because of the human constitution. In addition to the five senses, he believed there was a moral sense, both equal and complementary to these five. The picture he paints is of a human mentality positively geared to harmonious society, which stumbles and fails only when selfish interest gets in the way. Selfish interest though, was for him only a secondary phenomenon, a failure of the system, which can be corrected if only people could be brought to realize their own nature and the nature of their senses.

An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections
An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections

Author: Francis Hutcheson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-05-16

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780259409311

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Excerpt from An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections: With Illustrations Upon the Moral Sense The author takes nothing in bad part from any of his adverfaries, except that outcry which one or two of them made againl't thefo principles as Oppofite to Chriliianity, though' it be (0 well known that they have been and are sfpoufed by many of the molt zealous Chrifiie ans. There are anfwers interfperfed in the later editions to thefe Objeftions, to avoid the difagrecahle work of replying or remarking, in which one is not generally upon his guard fuficiently to avoid cavils and ofl'enlive ex. Preflions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.