Author: John Matthias Wilson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781330339954

Excerpt from The Principles of Morals: Introductory Chapters The three following chapters are part of a work on 'The Principles of Morals' planned, many years ago, by the late Professor J. M. Wilson and myself. The sheets now published were struck off in 1875, but the printing of the rest of the work was suddenly suspended in consequence of the declining health of my colleague. The remaining chapters or the materials for them exist in MS., in a more or less imperfect form; but a natural reluctance to recur to the work immediately after my colleague's death together with subsequent engagements has hitherto prevented me from devoting to them the attention necessary to their completion. Pending the question of undertaking this task, I think the publication of the following chapters may be of some service to students as affording an introduction to Moral Philosophy and containing a brief sketch of the leading English Moralists. There is the additional reason for publishing these chapters in a separate form, that they alone received Professor Wilson's final imprimatur. 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.