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Principles of Moral and Political Science: Being Chiefly a Retrospect of Lectures Delivered in the College of Edinburgh, Volume 1

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A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1792 - Ethics - 339 pages

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Of pleaſure and pain	7

Of beauty and deformity excellence and defect	22

Of virtue and vice	34

Of proſperity and adverfity or the gifts of fortune	47

Of happineſs and miſery	57

Of the actual meaſures and fources of good and evil in human life	70

Of the ſame ſubject continued	84

Of the difficulty which has arifen in accounting for moral approbation P	116

Of the general titles under which the rights of man may be claffed	190

Of rights original	196

Of the law or firft principle of eſtimation in the character of man	197

Of rights adventitious	198

Of the different ſources of adventitious rights	200

Of occupancy and the fpecies of right that may refult from it	203

Of labour and the ſpecies of right that may refult from it	207

Of contract or the principle of conventional obligation	214

Of the difficulty of reconciling the different judgements of men re lating to the morality of external actions	135

Of the fundamental rules of morality relating to external actions	149

Of the fame fubject continued	155

Of the unequal degrees of merit and demerit in external actions	159

Of the obligations and fanctions of moral law	168

Of the principle of compulſory law	179

Of the term right in its moft general acceptation	184

Of the law of defence in general	188

Of the laws of convention derived from the foregoing principle	226

Of the ſpecific obligations and rights that refult from contract	236

Of forfeiture and the ſpecies of right which refults from it	248

CHAP IV	257

Of the law of defence in the cafe of fingle perfons ftrangers and un connected	263

Of the cafe of fellow citizens	270

Of the cafe of nations	293

Of the fame fubject continued	300

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Title	Principles of Moral and Political Science: Being Chiefly a Retrospect of Lectures Delivered in the College of Edinburgh, Volume 1 Principles of Moral and Political Science: Being Chiefly a Retrospect of Lectures Delivered in the College of Edinburgh, Adam Ferguson
Author	Adam Ferguson
Publisher	A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1792
Original from	Austrian National Library
Digitized	2 Sep 2013
Length	339 pages

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