Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy: Chiefly During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

actions admiration ancient appears Aristotle ascribed association Augustinian authority beauty benevolence Bentham Butler called character Cicero Condillac conscience consequences considered contemplation controversy Council of Trent Cudworth Deontology Descartes desire disinterested dispositions Dissertation distinction doctrine Dr Brown's emotion Encyclopædia Britannica Epicureans Epicurus error ethical expression feelings genius habits happiness Hartley Hobbes human nature Hume Hutcheson important justice justly language Leibnitz Lord Shaftesbury Malebranche mankind means ment mental metaphysical mind moral approbation moral faculty Moral Philosophy moral sense moral sentiments moralist motives neral Nominalists Notes and Illustrations object observation opinions original outward passions perception perhaps philo philosopher Plato pleasure practical principles quæ qualities question quod reason regard Reid relation remarkable render says scepticism seems self-love shew sion social affections speculations sympathy Theism theory things thought tion truth utility virtue virtuous voluntary words writer