Get this book in print
About this book
My library
Books on Google Play
Section
CHAPTER VI.+
INSTANCES OF OTHER SIMPLE EMOTIONS.
295. Emotions of cheerfulness, joy, and gladness.
296. Emotions of melancholy, sorrow, and grief
297. Emotions of surprise, astonishment, and wonder.
298. Emotions of dissatisfaction, displeasure, and disgust
299. Emotions of diffidence, modesty, and shame
300. Emotions of regard, reverence, and adoration
CLASS II.
THE DESIRES.
CHAPTER I.+ ́
NATURE OF DESIRES.
301. Of the prevalence of desire in this department of the mind
302. The nature of desires known from consciousness
303. Of the place of desires in relation to other mental states
304. The desires characterized by comparative fixedness and perma-
nency.
305. Desires always imply an object desired
321
ib.
322
323
324
306. The fulfilment of desires attended with enjoyment
307. Of variations or degrees in the strength of the desires
308. Tendency to excite movement an attribute of desire
309. Classification of this part of the sensibilities
310. The principles, based upon desire, susceptible of a twofold op-
eration
327
CHAPTER II.
INSTINCTS.
311. Of instincts in man as compared with those of inferior animals
312. Illustrations of the instincts of brute animals
313. Instances of instincts in the human mind
314. Further instances of instincts in men
315. Of the final cause or use of instincts
316. Of the general nature and characteristics of the appetites
317. The appetites necessary to our preservation, and not originally of
a selfish character
318. Of the prevalence and origin of appetites for intoxicating drugs
319. Of the twofold operation and the morality of the appetites.
CHAPTER IV.
PROPENSITIES.
320. General remarks on the nature of the propensities
336
323. Of curiosity, or the desire of knowledge
321. Principle of self-preservation, or the desire of continued existence 337
322. Of the twofold action of the principle of self-preservation
324. Further illustrations of the principle of curiosity
339
325. Of the twofold operation and the morality of the principle of curi-
osity
340
326. Imitativeness, or the propensity to imitation
327. Practical results of the principle of imitation
328. Of the natural desire of esteem
329. Of the desire of esteem as a rule of conduct.
330. Of the desire of possession
331. Of the moral character of the possessory principle
332. Of perversions of the possessory desire
333. Of the desire of power
334. Of the moral character of the desire of power
335. Propensity of self-love, or the desire of happiness
336. Of selfishness as distinguished from self-love
337. Reference to the opinions of philosophical writers
338. The principle of sociality original in the human mind
339. Evidence of the existence of this principle of sociality
340. Other illustrations of the existence of this principle
341. Relation of the social principle to civil society
CHAPTER V.
THE MALEVOLENT AFFECTIONS.
342. Of the comparative rank of the affections
343. Of the complex nature of the affections
344. Of resentment or anger
345. Illustrations of instinctive resentment
346. Uses and moral character of instinctive resentment
347. Of voluntary in distinction from instinctive resentment
348. Tendency of anger to excess, and the natural checks to it
349. Other reasons for checking and subduing the angry passions
350. Modifications of resentment.
351. Modifications of resentment.
352. Modifications of resentment.
353. Modifications of resentment.
354. Nature of the passion of fear
Peevishness
Envy
Jealousy
Revenge
CHAPTER VI.-
THE BENEVOLENT AFFECTIONS.
355. Of the nature of love or benevolence in general
356. Love, in its various forms, characterized by a twofold action
357. Of the parental affection
358. Illustrations of the strength of the parental affection
359. Of the filial affection
360. The filial affection original or implanted
376
361. Illustrations of the filial affection
371
362. Of the nature of the fraternal affection
379
363. On the utility of the domestic affections
364. Of the moral character of the domestic affections, and of the be-
380
nevolent affections generally
381
365. Of the moral character of the voluntary exercises of the benevo-
lent affections
366. Of the connexion between benevolence and rectitude.
367. Of humanity, or the love of the human race.
368. Further proofs in support of the doctrine of an innate humanity,
or love for the human race
369. Proofs of a humane or philanthropic principle from the existence
CHAPTER VII. *
LOVE TO THE SUPREME BEING.
376. Man created originally with the principle of love to God
377. That man was originally created with a principle of love to God,
further shown from the Scriptures
378. Further proof that man was thus created
379. Relation of the principle of supreme love to God to the other
principles of the pathematic sensibilities
380. The absence of this principle attended with an excessive and sin-
ful action of other principles
Page
395
396
398
400
381. Further illustrations of the results of the absence of this principle 401
CHAPTER VIII.
HABITS OF THE SENSIBILITIES.
382. Meaning of the term habit
383. Of habits in connexion with the appetites
384. Of habits in connexion with the propensities
385. Of habits in connexion with the affections
386. Of the origin of secondary active principles.
MORAL OR CONSCIENTIOUS STATES OF THE MIND.-MORAL SENTIMENTS.
391. Changes in the moral emotions take place in accordance with
changes in the antecedent perceptions
389. Nature of the moral emotions of approval and disapproval
390. Of the place or position, mentally considered, of the emotions of
approval or disapproval
RELATION OF REASONING TO THE MORAL NATURE
393. Of the doctrine which confounds reasoning and conscience
394. Of the close connexion between conscience and reasoning
395. Illustration of the preceding section
396. Of the training or education of the conscience
397. Of guilt, when a person acts conscientiously
398. Feelings of moral obligation distinct from feelings of moral appro-
val and disapproval
399. Proof of the existence of obligatory feelings from consciousness.
400. Further proof from the conduct of men
401. Further proof from language and literature
402. Further proof from the necessity of these feelings
403. Feelings of obligation simple and not susceptible of definition
404. They are susceptible of different degrees
405. Of their authoritative and enforcing nature
406. Feelings of obligation differ from those of mere approval and dis-
approval
407. Feelings of obligation have particular reference to the future
408. Feelings of obligation subsequent in time to the moral emotions
of approval and disapproval
409. Feelings of obligation differ from desires
410. Further considerations on this subject.
UNIFORMITY OF ACTION IN THE MORAL SENSIBILITIES.
411. Of uniformity in the decisions of the moral nature and the princi-
ple on which it is regulated
412. The nature of conscience, considered as a uniform principle of ac-
tion, requires that it should vary in its decisions with circum-
stances
427
428
429
430
431
432
413. Diversities in moral decisions dependent on differences in the
amount of knowledge
414. Of diversities in moral judgment in connexion with differences
in civil and political institutions
415. Of diversities and obliquities of moral judgment in connexion
with speculative opinions
416. Further illustrations of the influence of wrong speculative opin-
ions
417. Influence of early associations on moral judgments
418. Of diversities in the moral judgment in connexion with an excited
state of the passions
MORAL EDUCATION.
419. Suggestions on the importance of moral education
434
436
437
420. The mind early occupied either with good or bad principles
421. Of the time when moral instruction ought to cominence
422. Of the discouragements attending a process of moral instruction
423. Of the importance, in a moral point of view, of adopting correct
speculative opinions
424. Of the knowledge of the Supreme Being, and of the study of re-
ligious truth generally
THE SENSIBILITIES, OR SENSITIVE NATURE.
SENSITIVE STATES OF THE MIND OR SENTIMENTS.
PART III.
IMPERFECT OR DISORDERED SENSITIVE ACTION.
CHAPTER I.
445
446
447
DISORDERED AND ALIENATED ACTION OF THE APPETITES AND PROPEN-
SITIES.
425. Introductory remarks on disordered sensitive action
426. Of what is meant by a disordered and alienated state of the sensi-
bilities
427. Of the disordered and alienated action of the appetites
dection
428. Disordered action of the principle of self-preservation
.
455
429. Disordered and alienated action of the possessory principle.
430. Instances of the second kind or form of disordered action of the
possessory principle
431. Disordered action of imitativeness, or the principle of imitation
432. Disordered action of the principle of sociality
456
· 457
433. Further remarks on the disordered action of the social propensity 458
434. Of the disordered action of the desire of esteem
435. Disordered action of the desire of power
SYMPATHETIC IMITATION.
436. Of sympathetic imitation, and what is involved in it
437. Familiar instances of sympathetic imitation.
459
460
461
462
438. Instances of sympathetic imitation at the poor-house of Harlem. 463
439. Other instances of this species of imitation
CHAPTER III. -
DISORDERED ACTION OF THE AFFECTIONS.
440. Of the states of mind denominated presentiments
441. Of sudden and strong impulses of the mind
442. Insanity of the affections or passions
443. Of the mental disease termed hypochondriasis
444. Of intermissions of hypochondriasis, and of its remedies
445. Disordered action of the passion of fear
446. Perversions of the benevolent affections
DISORDERED ACTION OF THE MORAL SENSIBILITIES.
447. Nature of voluntary moral derangement
448. Of accountability in connexion with this form of disordered con-
science
449. Of natural or congenital moral derangement
450. Of moral accountability in cases of natural or congenital moral
derangement