An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections: With Illustrations on the Moral Sense. E-book. Formato PDF Francis Hutcheson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Whatever Confufion the Schoolmen introduced into Philofo phy, fome of their keenel't Ad tvmf/aries icem to threaten it with a worfe kind of Confilfion, by at tempting to take away fome of the molt immediate jimple Tercepc tions, and to explain all ?pprolaa tion, Condemnation, Tleajiire and Tain, by fome intricate Relations to the Perceptions of the External Sen fes. In like manner they have treat ed our fic?res or ?fi'efiions, mak ing the moi't generous, kind and di interef'ted of them, to proceed from self-love, by fome fubtle Trains oi' Reafoning, to which honel't Hearts are often wholly Strangers.

An Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, in Two Treatises: Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design; Concerning Moral Good and Evil. E-book. Formato PDF Francis Hutcheson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Your Excellency's favourable Reception of them, soon put me out of all Fears about their Success with the wiser and better Part of the World; and since this has given me Assurance to own them, I humbly presume to inscribe them in this second Edition to your Excellency, that I may have at once an Opportunity of expressing the sincerest Gratitude for the Notice you were pleas'd to take of me, and have the Pleasure also of letting the World know, that this small Work has your Excellency's Approbation.