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The theory of moral sentiments.

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Part I Of the Propriety of Action Consisting of Three Sections

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Part II Of Merit and Demerit; or, of the Objects of Reward and Punishment Consisting of Three Parts

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Section I Of the Sense of Merit and Demerit

2.2.

Section II Of Justice and Beneficence

2.3.

Section III Of the Influence of Fortune upon the Sentiments of Mankind, with regard to the Merit or Demerit of Actions

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Part III Of the Foundation of our Judgments concerning our own Sentiments and Conduct, and of the Sense of Duty Consisting of One Section

4.

Part IV Of the Effect of Utility upon the Sentiment of Approbation Consisting of One Section

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Part V Of the Influence of Custom and Fashion upon the Sentiments of Moral Approbation and Disapprobation Consisting of One Section

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Part VI Of the Character of Virtue Consisting of Three Sections

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PART VII Of Systems of Moral Philosophy Consisting of Four Sections

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The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

by

Adam Smith

Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow.

London

: Printed for A. Millar, in the

Strand

; And A. Kincaid and J. Bell in

Edinburgh

. MDCCLIX