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British Moralists vol. 2

Vol. 2 contains works by Samuel Clarke, Balguy, Richard Price, Hobbes, Kames, Locke, Wollaston, and others.

British Moralists, being Selections from Writers principally of the Eighteenth Century, edited with an Introduction and analytical Index by L.A. Shelby-Bigge in two volumes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897). Vol. 2.

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CONTENTS OF VOL. II
SAMUEL CLARKE DISCOURSE UPON NATURAL RELIGION
CLARKE On Natural Religion
JOHN BALGUY THE FOUNDATION OF MORAL GOODNESS
BALGUY The Foundation of Moral Goodness Part I.
RICHARD PRICE: A REVIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL QUESTIONS IN MORALS
Richard Price A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals
Chapter I.: Of the Origin of our Ideas of Right and Wrong.
Section I.: The Question stated concerning the Foundation of Morals,
Section II.: Of the Origin of our Ideas in General.
Section III.: Of the Origin of our Ideas of moral Right and Wrong.
Chapter II.: Of our Ideas of the Beauty and Deformity of Actions.
Chapter III.: Of the Origin of our Desires and Affections.
Chapter IV.: Of our Ideas of good and ill Desert.
Chapter V.: Of the relation of Morality to the Divine Nature; the Rectitude of our Faculties; and the Grounds of Belief.
Chapter VI.: Of Fitness, and Moral Obligation, and the various Forms of Expression, which have been used by different Writers in explaining morality.
Chapter VIII.: Of the Nature and Essentials of Virtue in Practice, as Distinguished from absolute Virtue; and, the Principle of Action in a virtuous Agent.
APPENDIX
JOHN BALGUY The Foundation of Moral Goodness, Part II
JOHN BROWN On the Motives to Virtue
ESSAY II.
Section III.
Section VI.
Section VII
Section VIII.
Section IX.
JOHN CLARKE (OF HULL) The Foundation of Morality in Theory and Practice considered
RALPH CUDWORTH A Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality
BOOK I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
BOOK II.
Chapter I.
BOOK IV.
Chapter VI.
JOHN GAY Concerning the Fundamental Principle of Virtue or Morality
Section I.: Concerning the Criterion of Virtue.
Section II.: Concerning Obligation.
Section III.: Approbation and Affection.
Section IV.: Approbation and Affection considered with regard to Merit, or the Law of Esteem.
THOMAS HOBBES Leviathan
Chapter X.: Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour, and Worthiness.
Chapter XI.: Of the Difference of Manners.
Chapter XIII.: Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as concerning their Felicity and Misery.
Chapter XIV.: Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts.
Chapter XV.: Of other Laws of Nature.
Of Human Nature
Chapter IX.
HENRY HOME, LORD KAMES Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion
ESSAY II.: OF THE FOUNDATION AND PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF NATURE.
Chapter I.: Of the Foundation of the Law of Nature.
Chapter II.: Of the Moral Sense.
Chapter III.: Of Duty and Obligation.
Chapter V.: Of the Principles of Action.
Chapter VII.: Of Justice and Injustice.
JOHN LOCKE An Essay concerning Human Understanding
BOOK I.
Chapter II.: No Innate Practical Principles.
Book II.
Chapter XX.: Of Modes of Pleasure and Pain.
Chapter XXI.: Of Power.
Chapter XXVIII.: Of other Relations.
BERNARD DE MANDEVILLE An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue
WILLIAM PALEY The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
BOOK I.
Chapter VII.
BOOK II.
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
WILLIAM WOLLASTON The Religion of Nature delineated
Section I.: Of Moral Good and Evil.
Section II.: Of Happiness.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE OF SOME BRITISH WRITERS