Chapter VIII: Appendix: To Part III
Sec. 1.--OF THE ORIGIN AND IMMUTABILITY OF MORAL
DISTINCTIONS AND THEORIES OF MORALS 190
Origin of Our Idea of Virtue and Vice 193
System of Mandeville 195
System of Clarke and Wollaston 197
System of Utility 198
Selfish System 199
System of Paley 201
Defect of these Systems in not acknowledging the
Supreme Authority of Conscience 206
Objections to the belief of a uniformity of Moral
Feeling which have been founded on the practices
of barbarous nations 216
System of Dr. Smith, or Theory of Sympathy 219
Province of Reason in Moral Decisions 222
Remarks on the Observations of some late
Writers respecting the Corruption of Conscience 227
Sec. 2.--OF THE HARMONY OF THE MORAL FEELINGS 231
Consistency of Character arising from this Harmony,--and
Defects of Character to which it is
opposed 237
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