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The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings

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The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings

John Abercrombie

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A royal physician turns from bodies to consciences: Abercrombie, first physician to Her Majesty in Scotland, examines the moral feelings with clinical care. Preliminary observations lead through the nature of conscience, desire, and duty in orderly sections. Scottish philosophy from the bedside-manner school. The pulse of the conscience, professionally taken.

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  1. 1THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MORAL FEELINGS.
  2. 2JOHN ABERCROMBIE, M.D. Oxon. Edin.
  3. 3V. P. R. S. E.
  4. 4FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF EDINBURGH; MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE OF FRANCE; AND FIRST PHYSICIAN TO HER MAJESTY IN SCOTLAND.
  5. 5PREFACE.
  6. 6CONTENTS.
  7. 7PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.
  8. 8SECTION I. NATURE AND IMPORTANCE OF THE SCIENCE OF THE MORAL FEELINGS.
  9. 9SECTION II. FIRST TRUTHS IN THE SCIENCE OF THE MORAL FEELINGS.
  10. 10THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MORAL FEELINGS.
  11. 11PART I.
  12. 12THE DESIRES—THE AFFECTIONS—AND SELF-LOVE. SECTION I.
  13. 13SECTION II.
  14. 14SECTION III.
  15. 15PART II
  16. 16PART III.
  17. 17APPENDIX TO PART III.
  18. 18PART IV.

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