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• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• General Note
• Advertisement By the Translator.
• Juventuti Academicae Salutem.
• To the Students In Universities.
• Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria With a Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy
• Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria
• Liber I: Ethices Elementa.
• Caput I: De Hominis Natura Ejusque Partibus.
• Caput II: De Summo Bono Et Virtute.
• Caput III: De Variis Virtutum Divisionibus.
• Caput IV: De Virtutibus Et Officiis Erga Deum.
• Caput V: De Officiis Erga Alios Homines Exercendis.
• Caput VI: De Officiis Cujusque Erga Se, Et De Animi Cultura.
• 1 {caput VII: De Virtutis Studio Excitando Et Retinendo.
• Liber II: Jurisprudentiae Naturalis Elementa.
• Caput I: De Lege Naturali.
• Caput II: De Juris Natura Et Divisionibus.
• Caput III: De Virtutum Et Vitiorum Gradibus, Inter Se Comparatis{; Iisque Quae Speciem Moralem Afficiunt}.
• Caput IV: De Jure Privato Naturali.
• Caput V: De Jure Adventitio Reali, Et Rerum Dominio.
• Caput VI: De Dominii Acquirendi Rationibus.
• Caput VII: De Jure Derivato, Ejusque Causis.
• Caput VIII: De Dominii Transferendi Rationibus, Per Contractus, Successiones, Aut Testamenta.
• Caput IX: De Contractibus.
• Caput X: De Sermocinantium Officiis.
• Caput XI: De Jurejurando Et Votis.
• Caput XII: De Rerum Pretio.
• Caput XIII: De Variis Contractuum Generibus Post Pretia Rerum Constituta.
• Caput XIV: De Obligationibus Quasi Ex Contractu Ortis.
• Caput XV: Jura Ex Damno Dato, Atque Ex Aliorum Injuriis Orta. Jura Belli.
• Caput XVI: De Jure Extraordinario Ex Necessitate, Omniumque Jure Communi.
• Caput XVII: De Juris Interitu. De Litibus In Libertate Dirimendis, Et Interpretatione.
• Liber III: Oeconomices Et Politices Elementa.
• Caput I: De Conjugio.
• Caput II: De Parentum Et Liberorum Officiis.
• Caput III: De Herorum Et Servorum Jure.
• Caput IV: De Civitatum Origine Et Causis.
• Caput V: De Interna Civitatum Structura, Et Summi Imperii Partibus.
• Caput VI: De Variis Rerumpublicarum Formis.
• Caput VII: De Summi Imperii Jure, Ejusque Acquirendi Rationibus.
• Caput VIII: De Legibus Condendis, Et De Jurisdictione.
• Caput IX: De Jure Belli.
• Caput X: De Foederibus, Legatis, Et Civitatum Interitu [deletione].
• A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy.
• Book I: The Elements of Ethicks.
• Chapter I: Of Human Nature and Its Parts.
• Chapter II: Concerning the Supreme Good.
• Chapter III: Concerning the Chief Divisions of Virtue.
• Chapter IV: Our Duties Toward God.
• Chapter V: Our Duties Toward Mankind.
• Chapter VI: Concerning Our Duties Toward Ourselves, and the Improvement of the Mind.
• Chapter VII: Some Practical Considerations to Excite and Preserve the Study of Virtue.
• Book II: Elements of the Law of Nature.
• Chapter I: Of the Law of Nature.
• Chapter II: Of the Nature of Rights, and Their Several Divisions.
• Chapter III: Concerning the Various Degrees of Virtue and Vice, and the Circumstances On Which They Depend.
• Chapter IV: Concerning the Natural Rights of Individuals.
• Chapter V: Of Real Adventitious Rights and Property.
• Chapter VI: The Methods of Acquiring Property.
• Chapter VII: Of Derived Property.
• Chapter VIII: The Methods of Transferring Property, Contracts, Succession, Testaments.
• Chapter IX: Of Contracts In General.
• Chapter X: Our Obligations In Speech.
• Chapter XI: Of Oaths and Vows.
• Chapter XII: Concerning the Values Or Prices of Goods.
• Chapter XIII: Of the Several Sorts of Contracts.
• Chapter XIV: * Obligations Resembling Those From Contracts.
• Chapter XV: Of Rights Arising From Damage Done, and the Rights of War.
• Chapter XVI: Extraordinary Rights In Cases of Necessity, and the Common Rights of Mankind.
• Chapter XVII: How Rights and Obligations Cease: How Controversies Are to Be Decided In Natural Liberty: and the Rules of Interpretation.
• Book III: The Principles of Oeconomicks and Politicks.
• Chapter I: Concerning Marriage.
• Chapter II: The Duties of Parents and Children.
• Chapter III: The Rights of Masters and Servants.
• Chapter IV: The Original of Civil Government.
• Chapter V: The Internal Structure of States: and the Several Parts of Supreme Power.
• Chapter VI: Of the Various Plans of Government.
• Chapter VII: The Rights of the Supreme Power: and the Methods of Acquiring It.
• Chapter VIII: Of Civil Laws and Their Execution.
• Chapter IX: The Laws of War.
• Chapter X: Of Treaties and Ambassadors, and the Entire Dissolution of States.
• Bibliography of Modern Literature

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MODERN LITERATURE

The list comprises works referred to by Hutcheson and by the Editor in the notes and Introduction.

• Barbeyrac, Jean. Discours sur le benéfice des loix, où l’on fait voir, qu’un honnête homme ne peut pas toujours se prévaloir des droits et des privilèges que le loix donnent. Amsterdam, 2d ed. 1717. (See below, Pufendorf.)
• ———. Discours sur la permission des loix, où l’on fait voir, que ce qui est permis par le loix, n’est pas toujours juste et honnête, Amsterdam, 1716. (See below, Pufendorf.)
• Bynkershoek, Cornelis van. De dominio maris dissertatio. 1702. A photographic reproduction of the second edition, in Opera minora, 1744, pp. 352–424. New York: Oxford University Press, 1923.
• ———. De foro legatorum liber singularis. A monograph on the jurisdiction over ambassadors in both civil and criminal cases. A photographic reproduction of the text of 1744 with an English translation by Gordon J. Laing and an introduction by the late Jan de Louter. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1946.
• ———. Quaestionum juris privati libri quatuor. Leiden, 1744.
• ———. Traité du juge competent des ambassadeurs: Tant pour le civil, que pour le criminel. Traduit du Latin de Mr. de Bynkerhoek par Jean Barbeyrac. The Hague, 1723.
• Campbell, Archibald. An Enquiry into the Original of Moral Virtue. Edinburgh, 1733.
• Carmichael, Gershom. Natural Rights on the Threshold of the Scottish Enlightenment:The Writings of Gershom Carmichael, ed. J. Moore and M. Silverthorne. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2002.
• Cumberland, Richard. De legibus naturae, 1672. Translated by John Maxwell, London, 1727.
• Filmer, Robert. Patriarcha, or the Natural Power of Kings. London, 1680.
• Greig, J. Y. T. The letters of David Hume. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932.
• Grotius, Hugo. De iure belli ac pacis libri tres, in quibus ius naturae et gentium, item iuris publici praecipua explicantur. Paris, 1625.
• ———. Les Droit de la guerre et de la paix. Trans. Jean Barbeyrac, 2 vols., Amsterdam, 1724.
• Haakonssen, Knud. Natural Law and Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• Harrington, James. The Commonwealth of Oceana. London, 1656.
• Heineccius, Johann Gottlieb. Antiquitatum Romanarum jurisprudentiam illustrantium Syntagma,secundum ordinem Institutionum Justiniani digestum, in quo multa iuris romani atque auctorum veterum loca explicantur atque illustrantur. Strassbourg, 1724.
• Hooker, Richard. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. London, 1593.
• Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature. London, 1739–40.
• Hutcheson, Francis. An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections. With Illustrations on the Moral Sense. London, 1742.
• ———. An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue; In Two Treatises. I. Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design. II. Concerning Moral Good and Evil. London,1738.
• ———. Synopsis metaphysicae, ontologiam & pneumatologiam complectens. Glasgow, 1744.
• ———. Philosophiae moralis institutio compendiaria, Ethices & Jurisprudentiae Naturalis elementa continens. Glasgow, 1742, 2d ed. 1745.
• ———. A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy. Glasgow, 1747.
• ———. A System of Moral Philosophy. London, 1755.
• ———. “Observations on the Fable of the Bees,” The Dublin Weekly Journal 4, 12, and 19 February 1726. Reprinted in Collected Works, vol. VII. New York: Garland, 1971.
• ———. “Reflections upon Laughter,” The Dublin Weekly Journal, 5, 12, and 19 June 1725. Reprinted in Collected Works, vol. VII. New York: Garland, 1971.
• Iustinianus. Corpus iuris civilis.
• King, William. De Origine Mali. London, 1702.
• La Bruyère, Jean de. Les caractères de Théophraste traduit du Grec avec Les caracterères ou le moeurs de ce siècle. Bruxelles, 1688.
• Leechman,William. Preface to A system of Moral Philosophy. Glasgow, 1755.
• Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von. Jugement d’un anonyme sur l’orginal de cet abrégé [De officio]: avec des réflexions du Traducteur. (Published in Pufendorf, Les Devoirs de l’homme, et du citoien. pp. 429–95; see below.)
• Locke, John. An Essay concerning Human Understanding. London, 1690.
• ———. Two Treatises of Government. London, 1690.
• Malebranche, Nicolas. De la recherche de la verité: Ou l’on traite de la nature de l’esprit de l’homme et de l’usage qu’il en doit faire pour éviterl’erreur dans les Sciences. Paris, 1674–78. (First English translation by Thomas Taylor with the title Father Malebranche’s Treatise concerning the Search after Truth. Oxford, 1694.)
• Mautner, Thomas. Francis Hutcheson: On Human nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
• Moore, James. “The Two Systems of Francis Hutcheson: On the Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment.” In Studies in the Philosophy of Scottish Enlightenment, edited by M. A. Stewart, 1990, pp. 37–59.
• More, Henry. Enchiridion Ethicum, 1679, 2d ed., in Opera Omnia, London, 1629.
• More, Thomas. The Utopia of Sir Thomas More. In Latin from the edition of March 1518, and in English from the first edition of Ralph Robynson’s translation in 1551, with additional translations, introduction and notes, by J. H. Lupton. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895.
• Pufendorf, Samuel von. De jure naturae et gentium libri octo. Lund, 1672.
• ———. Le droit de la nature et des gens ou systeme general des principes les plus importans de la morale, de la jurisprudence, et de la politique. Trans. Jean Barbeyrac, 2 vols., Basle, 1732.
• ———. De officio hominis et civis iuxta legem naturalem libri duo. Lund, 1673.
• ———. Les Devoirs de l’homme, et du citoien. Ed. J. Barbeyrac. Amsterdam, 1718.
• ———. The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature. Together with Two Discourses and a Commentary by Jean Barbeyrac. Edited by Ian Hunter and David Saunders. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2002.
• Scott, William Robert. Francis Hutcheson: His Life, Teaching and Position in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1900.
• Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of. Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. London, 1714. 2d ed. Edited by L. E. Klein, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• Sidney, Algernon. Discourses Concerning Government. London, 1698.
• Titius, Gottlieb Gerhard. Observationes in Samuelis L. B. de Pufendorf De officio hominis et civis juxta legem naturalem libri duos. Leipzig, 1703.
• Vinnius, Arnoldus. In quattuor libros Institutionum imperialium Commentarius academicus et forensic. Amsterdam, 1692.
• Wicquefort, Abraham van. L’Ambassadeur et ses fonctions. La Haye, 1681.

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