19. Hume has to derive from ‘impressions’ the objects which Locke took for granted.
20. Questions which he found at issue, a. Is virtue interested? b. What is conscience?
21. Hobbes’ answer to first question.
22. Counter-doctrine of Shaftesbury. Vice is selfishness; but no clear account of selfishness.
23. Confusion in his notions of self-good and public good; Is all living for pleasure, or only too much of it, selfish?
24. What have Butler and Hutcheson to say about it? Chiefly that affections terminate upon their objects; but this does not exclude the view that all desire is for pleasure.
25. Of moral goodness Butler’s account circular. Hutcheson’s inconsistent with his doctrine that reason gives no end.
26. Source of the moral judgment: received notion of reason incompatible with true view. Shaftesbury’s doctrine of rational affection; spoilt by doctrine of ‘moral sense’.
27. Consequences of the latter.
28. Is an act done for ‘virtue’s sake’ done for pleasure of moral sense?