The theory of moral sentiments: By Adam Smith, ...

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Title: The theory of moral sentiments: By Adam Smith, ...
Author: Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
Publication: London :: printed for A. Millar; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh,; 1759.
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SECT. I. Of Sympathy Page 1
SECT. II. Of the sentiments by which we approve or disapprove of the passions and affections of other men, as suitable or unsuitable to their objects.
- CHAP. I. Of the pleasure of mutual sympathy 14
- CHAP. II. Of the manner in which we judge of the pro|priety or impropriety of the affection of other men 22
- CHAP. III. The same subject continued 30
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- CHAP. IV. Of the amiable and respectable virtues page 41
SECT. III. Of the degrees of the different passions which are consistent with propriety 49
- CHAP. I. Of the passions which take their origin from the body 51
- CHAP. II. Of those passions which take their origin from a particular turn or habit of the imagina|tion 60
- CHAP. III. Of the unsocial passions 67
- CHAP. IV. Of the social passions 80
SECT. IV. 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 93

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- CHAP. I. That tho' our sympathy with sorrow is gene|rally a more lively sensation than our sym|pathy with joy, it commonly falls much more short of the violence of what is felt by the person principally concerned p. 93
- CHAP. II. Of the origin of ambition, and of the distinc|tion of ranks 108
- CHAP. III. Of the stoical philosophy 128