The Theory of Moral Sentiments Or, an Essay Towards an...

PART I.

Of the Propriety of Action.

SECTION I.

Of the sense of propriety

Page 1.

Chap. I.Of Sympathy

ibid.

Chap. II.Of the Pleasure of mutual Sympathy

9

Chap. 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

14

Chap. IV.The same subject continued

19

Chap. V.Of the amiable and respectable virtues

27

SECTION II.

Of the degrees of the different passions which are consistent with propriety

33

Chap. I.Of the passions which take their origin from the body

34

Chap. II.Of those passions which take their origin from a particular turn or habit of the imagination

41

Chap. III.Of the unsocial passions

46

Chap. IV.Of the social passions

54

Chap. V.Of the selfish passions

58

SECTION 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

64

Chap. 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

ibid.

Chap. II.Of the origin of ambition, and of the distinction of ranks

74

Chap. III.Of the stoical philosophy

89

PART II.

Of Merit and Demerit; or of the objects of reward and punishment.

SECTION I.