SECTION II.

FIRST TRUTHS IN THE SCIENCE OF THE MORAL FEELINGS.

Analogy between First Truths, or Intuitive Principles of Belief, in Intellectual, and in Moral Science 11

Classification of First Truths in Moral Science, as impressions arising out of each other, by an obvious chain of relations 16

1. Perception of the nature and quality of actions, as just or unjust,—right or wrong;—and a conviction of duties which a man owes to other men.

2. Conviction of the existence and attributes of a Great First Cause, and Moral Governor.

3. Conviction of Moral Responsibility.

4. Impression of Future Existence.

Importance of these convictions, as intuitive articles of belief 18

THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MORAL FEELINGS.

Analysis of Man as a Moral Being 27

I. THE DESIRES—THE AFFECTIONS—and SELF-LOVE.

II. THE WILL.

III. THE MORAL PRINCIPLE, or CONSCIENCE.

IV. THE MORAL RELATION OF MAN TOWARDS THE DEITY.

PART I.

THE DESIRES—THE AFFECTIONS—AND SELF-LOVE.