Outlines of moral philosophy / by Dugald Stewart.

  • Dugald Stewart
Date:
1845
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Credit: Outlines of moral philosophy / by Dugald Stewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. My principal object, in this publication, is to exhibit such a view of the arrangement of my - Lectures, as may facilitate the studies of those to whom they are addressed. In a course which ~ employs more than five months, and which ne- cessarily includes a great variety of disquisitions, it is difficult for a hearer to retain a steady idea of the train of thought leading from one subject to another ; and, of consequence, the lectures, by assuming the appearance of detached discourses, are in danger of losing the advantages arising from connection and method. The following Outlines will, I hope, not only obviate this in- convenience, but will allow me, in future, a greater latitude of illustration and digression, than I could have indulged myself in with pro- priety, so long as my students were left to in-
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