Adam Smith :: :: University of Virginia Library

Chapter 1. Historical Introduction

Chapter 2. The Phenomena of Sympathy

Chapter 3. Moral Approbation, and the Feeling of Propriety.

Chapter 4. The Feeling of Merit and Demerit

Chapter 5. Influence of Prosperity or Adversity, Chance, and Custom Upon Moral Sentiments

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Footnotes

Chapter 6. Theory of Conscience and Duty

Chapter 7. Theory of Moral Principles

Chapter 8. The Relation of Religion to Morality

Chapter 9. The Character of Virtue

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Chapter 10. Adam Smith's Theory of Happiness

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Chapter 11. Adam Smith's Theory of Final Causes in Ethics

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Chapter 12. Adam Smith's Theory of Utility

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Chapter 13. The Relation of Adam Smith's Theory to Other Systems of Morality

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Chapter 14. Review of the Principle Criticisms of Adam Smith's Theory

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It is remarkable, an characteristic of the difference of feeling between Adam Smith's time and our own, that he should have mentioned this fact in the criminal law of his time, without the slightest comment of disapproval.