How regarded by the Romans, [297]
Virtue, Hume's theory of the criterion, essential element, and object of, i. 4.
Motive to virtue according to the doctrine which bases morals upon experience, 6.
Mandeville's the lowest and most repulsive form of this theory, 6, 7.
Views of the essence and origin of virtue adopted by the school of Utilitarians, 7-9.
Views of the Utilitarians of, 12.
Association of ideas in which virtue becomes the supreme object of our affections, 27.
Impossibility of virtue bringing pleasure if practised only with that end, 35, 36.
The utility of virtue not denied by intuitive moralists, 39.
The degrees of virtue and vice do not correspond to the degrees of utility, or the reverse, 53.