An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue in Two Treatises (Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics)

This work contains two treatises: concerning beauty, order, harmony, design, and concerning moral good and evil. There is no part of philosophy of more importance than a just knowledge of human nature and its various powers and dispositions. The author presents these papers as an inquiry into the various pleasures which human nature is capable of receiving. Written in Old English. The Inquiry 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. The First Treatise Argues That Human Beings Possess A Natural Internal Sense Of Beauty, Whereas The Second Focuses On The Moral Sense That Enables Us To Distinguish Virtue From Vice And Thus To Act From Moral Love Or Benevolence.--jacket. Treatise I. An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, &c. -- Treatise Ii. An Inquiry Concerning The Original Of Our Ideas Of Virtue Or Moral Good. Francis Hutcheson ; Edited And With An Introduction By Wolfgang Leidhold. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter......Page 1 Title Page......Page 5 Table of Contents......Page 7 Introduction, p. ix......Page 9 References and Further Reading, p. xix......Page 19 Note on the Text, p. xxiii......Page 23 Title Page......Page 31 Dedication......Page 32 The Preface, p. 7......Page 35 The Contents, p. 15......Page 43 Treatise I. Concerning Beauty, Order, p. 17......Page 45 Treatise II: Concerning Virtue or Moral Good, p. 83......Page 111 Textual Notes, p. 199......Page 227 Index, p. 249......Page 277 End of the Book, p. 258......Page 286 "The Inquiry 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. The first treatise argues that human beings possess a natural internal sense of beauty, whereas the second focuses on the 'moral sense' that enables us to distinguish virtue from vice and thus to act from moral love or benevolence'"--Book jacket