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

to them, and is from thence naturally led to give them a name. When they fall in with the natural state of his own mind, he is very apt to overlook them altogether, and either gives them no name at all, or, if he gives them any, it is one which marks rather the subjection and restraint of the passion, than the degree which it still is allowed to subsist in, after it is so subjected and restrained. Thus the common names of the * 1.1 love of pleasure, and of the ^b love of sex denote a vitious and offensive degree of those passions. The words temperance and chastity on the other hand, seem to mark rather the restraint and subjec|tion which they are kept under than the de|gree which they are still allowed to subsist in▪ When he can show, therefore, that they still subsist in some degree, he imagines, he has entirely demolished the reality of the virtue•• of temperance and chastity, and shown them to be meer impositions upon the inattenti•••• and simplicity of mankind. Those virtues, however, do not require an entire insensibi|lity to the objects of the passions which they mean to govern. They only aim at restrain|ing the violence of those passions so far as not

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* 1.1

Luxury and lust.

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Title: The theory of moral sentiments: By Adam Smith, ...
Author: Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
Canvas: Page 484
Publication: London :: printed for A. Millar; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh,; 1759.

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