An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition

by Adam Ferguson

PART VII.

Of Systems of Moral Philosophy.

Section I. Of the questions which ought to be examined in a Theory of Moral Sentiments.

Section II. Of the different Accounts which have been given of the nature of Virtue.

Introduction.

Chap. I. Of those systems which make Virtue consist in propriety.

Chap. II. Of those systems which make Virtue consist in prudence.

Chap. III. Of those systems which make Virtue consist in benevolence.

Chap. IV. Of licentious Systems.

Section III. Of the different Systems which have been formed concerning the Principle of Approbation.