Comparison between the Faculties of Man and those of the Lower

SECT. I.

Animals.

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II.

III.

APPENDIX.-Some Account of JAMES MITCHELL, a boy born Deaf

and Blind. (From the Transactions of the Royal

Society of Edinburgh.) With other Papers and

Communications on the same Subject

Supplement to the History of JAmes Mitchell

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

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328

OUTLINES OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

INTRODUCTION.

SECT. I. Of the Object of Philosophy, and the Method of prose-

cuting Philosophical Inquiries

II.-Application of the foregoing Principles to the Philoso-

phy of the Human Mind

375

377

III. Causes of the slow Progress of Human Knowledge;

more particularly of the Philosophy of the Human Mind,

and of the Sciences immediately connected with it

378

380

SUBJECT AND ARRANGEMENT OF THIS TREATISE

PART I.

OF THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS OF MAN.

SECT. I.-Of Consciousness

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382

II. Of the Power of External Perception

ART. 1. Of Perception in general

382

382

2. Of the Laws of Perception in the case of

our different Senses

386

III.-Of Attention

IV. Of Conception

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389

389

396

399

VIII. Of Imagination

IX. Of Judgment and Reasoning

1. Of Intuitive Evidence

2. Of Deductive Evidence

X.-Of Intellectual Powers and Capacities, formed by par-

ticular Habits of Study or of Business

XI. Of certain auxiliary Faculties and Principles essential

to our intellectual Improvement, or intimately connect-

ed with it

1. Of Language

2. Of the Principle of Imitation

XII. Of the Intellectual Faculties of Man, as contrasted

with the Instincts of the Brutes

PART II.

OF THE ACTIVE AND OF THE MORAL POWERS OF MAN.

CHAPTER I.

Classification and Analysis of our Active and Moral Powers.

SECT. I.--Of the Active Powers in general

II. Of our Appetites

III. Of our Desires

1. The Desire of Knowledge

2. The Desire of Society

3. The Desire of Esteem

4. The Desire of Power

5. The Desire of Superiority

IV. Of our Affections

1. Of the Benevolent Affections

2. Of the Malevolent Affections

VI. Of the Moral Faculty

V.-Of Self-Love

400

400

402

403

405

406

407

407

408

409

409

411

412

412

415

416

420

420

ART. 1. General Observations on this part of our Consti-

2. Analysis of our Moral Perceptions and Emotions 423

1. Of the Perception of Right and Wrong 424

2. Of the Agreeable and Disagreeable Emo-

tions, arising from the Perception of what

is Right and Wrong in Conduct

CHAPTER II.

Of the various Branches of our Duty.

SECT. I. Of the Duties which respect the Deity

Preliminary Inquiry into the Principles of Natural Religion.

ART. 1. Of the Existence of the Deity

1.

437

437

Of the Foundations of our Reasoning from the

Effect to the Cause, and of the Evidences

of Active Power, exhibited in the Universe 438

2. Of the Evidences of Design exhibited in the

Universe

442

2. Of the Moral Attributes of the Deity

450

1. Of the Evidences of Benevolent Design in

the Universe

450

2. Of the Evidences of the Moral Government

of the Deity

456

3. Of a Future State

458

1. Of the Argument for a Future State derived

from the Nature of Mind

459

2. Of the Evidences of a Future State, arising

from the Human Constitution, and from

the Circumstances in which Man is placed 462

II. Of the Duties which respect our Fellow-creatures

ART. 1. Of Benevolence

2. Of Justice

1. Of Candor

466

466

469

470

2. Of Integrity or Honesty

3. Of Veracity

III. Of the Duties which respect Ourselves

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473

476

479

ART. 1. General Remarks on this Class of our Duties

2. Of the Duty of employing the Means we possess

V. Of an Ambiguity in the words right and wrong, virtue

and vice

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493

VI. Of the Office and Use of Reason in the Practice of

Morality

494

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OF THE

PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN MIND.

VOL. III.