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Francis Hutcheson, An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue [1726]Edition used:An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue in Two Treatises, ed. Wolfgang Leidhold (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004).
 | About this title:A seminal text of the Scottish Enlightenment which was written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury. It consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities.
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- Introduction
- Note On the Text
- Acknowledgments
- An Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
- The Preface
- ∥ 1 Treatise I: Viz. an Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, &c.∥
- Section I: Concerning Some Powers of Perception, Distinct From What Is Generally Understood By Sensation.
- Section II: Of Original Or Absolute Beauty.
- Section III: Of the Beauty of Theorems.
- Section IV: Of Relative Or Comparative Beauty.
- Section V: Concerning Our Reasonings About Design and Wisdom In the Cause, From the Beauty Or Regularity of Effects.
- Section VI: Of the Universality of the Sense of Beauty Among Men.
- Section VII: Of the Power of Custom, Education, and Example, As to Our Internal Senses.
- Section VIII: Of the Importance of the Internal Senses In Life, and the Final Causes of Them.
- ∥ 1 Treatise II: Viz. an Inquiry Concerning the Original of Our Ideas of Virtue Or Moral Good.
- Introduction.
- Section I: Of the Moral Sense By Which We Perceive Virtue and Vice, and Approve Or Disapprove Them In Others.
- Section II: Concerning the Immediate Motive to Virtuous Actions.
- Section III: The Sense of Virtue, and the Various Opinions About It, Reducible to One General Foundation. the Manner of Computing the Morality of Actions.
- Section IV: All Mankind Agree In This General Foundation of Their Approbation of Moral Actions. the Grounds of the Different Opinions About Morals.
- Section V: A Further Confirmation That We Have Practical Dispositions to Virtue Implanted In Our Nature; With a Further Explication ∥ 1 of Our Instinct to Benevolence In Its Various Degrees ∥; With the Additional Motives of Interest, Viz. Honour, Shame
- Section VI: Concerning the Importance of This Moral Sense to the Present Happiness of Mankind, and Its Influence On Human Affairs.
- Section VII: A Deduction of Some Complex Moral Ideas, Viz. of Obligation, and Right, Perfect, Imperfect, and External, Alienable, and Unalienable, From This Moral Sense.
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