The Theory of Moral Sentiments

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1. 1THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS; OR, AN ESSAY TOWARDS An Analysis of the Principles by which Men naturally judge concerning the Conduct and Character, first of their Neighbours, and afterwards of THEMSELVES. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A DISSERTATION ON THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGES.
2. 2CONTENTS.
3. 3PART I. Of the PROPRIETY of ACTION.
4. 4SECTION I. Of the Sense of Propriety.
5. 5CHAP. I. Of Sympathy.
6. 6CHAP. II. Of the Pleasure of mutual Sympathy.
7. 7CHAP. III. Of the manner in which we judge of the propriety or impropriety of the affections of other men, by their concord or dissonance with our own.
8. 8CHAP. IV. The same subject continued.
9. 9CHAP. V. Of the amiable and respectable virtues.
10. 10SECTION II. Of the degrees of the different passions which are consistent with propriety.
11. 11INTRODUCTION.
12. 12CHAP. I. Of the passions which take their origin from the body.
13. 13CHAP. II. Of those passions which take their origin from a particular turn or habit of the imagination.
14. 14CHAP. III. Of the unsocial passions.
15. 15CHAP. IV. Of the social passions.
16. 16CHAP. V. Of the selfish passions.
17. 17SECTION III. Of the effects of prosperity and adversity upon the judgment of mankind with regard to the propriety of action; and why it is more easy to obtain their approbation in the one state than in the other.
18. 18CHAP. I. That though our sympathy with sorrow is generally a more lively sensation than our sympathy with joy, it commonly falls much more short of the violence of what is naturally felt by the person principally concerned.

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