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Morals 1795 Sept. 12. Moral Entities 12 Sept 1795
1. Theoretical Part or terminological . Practical Part or prescriptive. 5. Theoretical Part
1. ies defines &c
2. Moral entities enumerated, marshalled and defined
II. Practical Part.
Conjunctions, or occasions calling for moral action 1. Conjunctions primary, simple or elementary 2. Secondary conjunctions or occasions
I. Elementary occasions self-regarding 1. Cliria of means of gratifying satisfying necessary wants. 2 ~ of pleasures and amusements. 3. of studies
Elementary occasions extra-regarding 1. Choices of the means of pleasing, and avoiding to displease 2. of the income of managers or rendering the millions of Men subservient to our wishes.
Moral Entities.
Pains Pleasures Perceptions Sensations Emotions Afflictions Passions Desires Appetites Volitions Villisties Wishes Desires Wants Appetites Resolutions Motives Dispositions Habits Inclinations Propensities Vices Virtues
4. Secondary occasions or calls for action
1. Choice of profession 2. Choice of Studies 3. Choice of acqaintances & friendchips 4. Marriage Clev 5. Behaviour in marriage 6. Behaviour to offspring
Order in which the several classes of Moral Entities should be expounded.
Virtues 2 Self-regarding. Prudential I. More immediately useful to ourselves
Extra-regarding II. More immediately useful to others
Moral 1 I. — more immediately seated in the will. —
Intellectual II. — more immediately seated in the understanding
3. Conduct in quarrels 4. Means of avoiding quarrels.
Behaviour to Superiors Inferiors Equals.
Moral Reveries Conceits — Extravagances
1 Existence of a summum bonum
2. Notion that pain is no evil.
3. Notion that virtue is sufficient to Happiness.
4. Notion that all Virtue consists in mediocrity.
5. Notion that virtue consists in any thing but the pursuit of that course of conduct which has a tendency to produce any happiness and requires self-denial.
Summum bonum like the Grand Elixir or Philosophers Stone.
6. Notion that Happiness consists of any thing but pleasures: unhappiness of any thing but pains.
7. Notion that the propensity of an act is to be determined not by experience observation and calculation of its tendency in respect of happiness, but by a sense on purpose called a moral sense.
Catalogue of the Virtues according to the Oxford
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