A treatise of human nature: being an attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects. ... [pt.3]

Title

A treatise of human nature: being an attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects. ... [pt.3]

Author

Hume, David, 1711-1776.

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London :: printed for John Noon,

1739-40.

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Contents

• title page
• ADVERTISEMENT.
• THE CONTENTS. BOOK III. Of MORALS.
• ERRATA.
• PART I. Of Virtue and Vice in general.
  • SECT. I. Moral Distinctions not deriv'd from Reason.
  • SECT. II. Moral distinctions deriv'd from a moral sense.
• PART II. Of justice and injustice.
  • SECT. I. Justice, whether a natural or artifi∣cial virtue?
  • SECT. II. Of the origin of justice and property.
  • SECT. III. Of the rules, which determine property.
  • SECT. IV. Of the transference of property by consent.
  • SECT. V. Of the obligation of promises.
  • SECT. VI. Some farther reflections concerning justice and injustice.
  • SECT. VII. Of the origin of government.
  • SECT. VIII. Of the source of allegiance.
  • SECT. IX. Of the measures of allegiance.
  • SECT. X. Of the objects of allegiance.
  • SECT. XI. Of the laws of nations.
  • SECT. XII. Of chastity and modesty.
• PART III. Of the other virtues and vices.
  • SECT. I. Of the origin of the natural virtues and vices.
  • SECT. II. Of greatness of mind.
  • SECT. III. Of goodness and benevolence.
  • SECT. IV. Of natural abilities.
  • SECT. V. Some farther reflections concerning the natural virtues.
  • SECT. VI. Conclusion of this book.
• APPENDIX.
  • To be inserted in Vol. I. page 153. line 12. after these words (fainter and more ob∣scure.) beginning a new paragraph.
  • To be inserted Vol. I. page 174. line 8. after these words (according to the foregoing definition.) beginning a new paragraph.
  • A note to Vol. I. page 179. line 19. after these words (immediate impression.)
  • To be inserted in Vol. I. page 218. line 21. after these words (impressions of the senses.) beginning a new paragraph.
  • To be inserted in Vol. I. page 282. line ult. after these words (any idea of power.) be∣ginning a new paragraph.
  • part
  • A note to Vol. I. page 43. line 11. to the word (resemblance.)
  • To be inserted in Vol. I. page 88. line 19. after these words (of the present difficulty.) beginning a new paragraph.
  • To be inserted in Vol. I. page 97. line 22. after these words (practicable or imagi∣nable) beginning a new paragraph.
  • A note to Vol. I. page 118. line 8. to these words (impressions and ideas.)