History of moral science.

  • Robert Blakey
Date:
1836
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Credit: History of moral science. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    OF MORAL SCIENCE. CHAPTER XVI. DR. HUTCHESON. ON THE PASSIONS. Dr. Hutcheson's treatise on the passions is a book of considerable ingenuity and importance. He seems to have set a high value upon it himself, and his affection for it may have been considerably heigh- tened from the consideration that it was his first pro- duction, and what contributed in a material degree to bring him into notice as a moral writer. This work is divided into two parts, one on the nature and conduct of the passions, and the other contains further illustrations of the doctrine of a moral sense, and an examination of the systems of Mr. Wollas- ton, Dr. Clarke, and others. The first part, which relates to the nature and conduct of the passions, is by far the most interest- ing and instructive ; and I here beg to premise, that VOL. II. B
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