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GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO VOL. II.
1. Hume’s doctrine of morals parallel to his doctrine of nature.
2. Its relation to Locke: Locke’s account of freedom, will, and desire.
3. Two questions: Does man always act from the strongest motive? and, What constitutes his motive? The latter the important question. Distinction between desires that are, and those that are not, determined by the conception of self.
4. Effect of this conception on the objects of human desire.
5. Objects so constituted Locke should consistently exclude: But he finds room for them by treating every desire for an object, of which the attainment gives pleasure, as a desire for pleasure.
6. Confusion covered by calling ‘happiness’ the general object of desire.
7. ‘Greatest sum of pleasure’ and ‘Pleasure in general’ unmeaning expressions.
8. In what sense of happiness is it true that it ‘is really just as it appears?’ In what sense that it is every one’s object?