Abridgment of Mental Philosophy

INSTANCLS OF OTUB 3 SIMPLE EXOTIONS.

295. Emotions of cheerfulness, joy, and gladness .

296. Emotions of melancholy, sorrow, and grief .

297. Emotions of surprise, astonishinent, and wonder

298, Emotions of dissatisfaction, displeasure, and disgust

299 Emotions of diffidence, modesty, and shame

%0. Emotions of regard, reverence, and adoration

317
ib

301. Of the prevalence of desire in this department of the mind 321

302. The nature of desires known from consciousness

ib.

303. Of the place of desires in relation to other mental states

322

304 The desires characterized by comparative fixedness and peina.

nency.

305. Desires always imply an object desired

324

306. The fulfilment of desires attended with enjoyment

ib.

307. Of variations or degrees in the strength of the desires

325

308. Tendency to excite movement an attribute of desire

309. Classification of this part of the sensibilities

326

210. The principles, based upon desire, susceptible of a twofold op:

311. Of instincts in man as compared with those of inferior animals

312. Illustrations the instincts of brute animals

313. Instances of instincts in the human mind

314. Further instances of instincts in men

815. Of the final cause or use of instincts

316 Of the general nature and characteristics of the appetites 333

317. The appetites necessary to our preservation, and not originally of

a selfish character

it.

318. Of the prevalence and origin of appetites for intoxicating drugs 334

319. Of the iwofold operation and the morality of the appetites . 335

CHAPTER IV.

PROPENSITIES.

320. General remarks on the nature of the propensities

336

321, Principle of self-preservation, or the desire of continued existence 337

322. Of the twofold action of the principle of self-preservation

338

323. Of curiosity, or the desire of knowledge

ib.

324. Further illustrations of the principle of curiosity :

339

325. Of the twofold operation and the morality of the principle of curi-

osity.

340

326. Imitativeness,

or the proper.sity to imitation

327. Practical results of he prir.ciple of imitation

342

341
Sestion

328. or the ral uraı desire of esteem

329. Of the desire of esteem as a rule of conduct

330. Of the desire of possession

331. Of the moral character of the possessory principle

332. Of perversions of the possessory desire

333. Of ihe desire of power

334. Of the moral character of the desire of power

335. Propensity of self-love, or the desire of happiness

336. Of selfishness as distinguished from self-love

337. Reference to the opinions of philosophical writers,

338. The principle of sociality original in the human mind

33! Evidence of the existence of this principle of sociality

346 Other illustrations of the existence of this principle

34 Relation of the social principle to civil society

CHAPTER V.

THE MALEVOLENT AFFECTIONS

342. Of the comparative rank of the affections

343. Of the complex nature of the affections

344. Of resentment or anger

345. Illustrations of instinctive resentment

346. Uses and moral character of instinctive resentment

347. Of voluntary in distinction from instinctive resentment

348. Tendency of anger to excess, and the natural checks to it

349. Other reasons for checking and subduing the angry passions

350. Modifications of resentment. Peevishness

351. Modifications of resentment. Envy

352. Modifications of resentment. Jealousy

353. Modifications of resentment. Revenge

354 Nature of the passion of fear

THE BENEVOLENT AFFECTIONS.

355. Of the nature of love or benevolence in general

371

356. Love, in its various forms, characterized by a twofold action 372

357. Of the parental affection

ib.

358. Illustrations of the strength of the parental affection

374

359. Of the filial affection

375

360. The filial affectior, original or implanted

376

361. Illustrations of the filial affection.

371

362. Of the nature of the fraternal affection.

379

363. On the utility of the domestic affections

380

364. Of the moral character of the domestic affections, and of the be-

nevolent affections generally

381

365. Of the moral character of the voluntary exercises of the beneva

lent affections

382

$66. Of the connexion between benevolence and rectitude :

383

367 Of humanity, or the love of the human race .

384

36€ Further proofs support of the doctrine of an innate humanity,

or love for the human race

386

369. Proofs of a humane or philanthropic principle from the existence

of benevolent institutions

387

370 Other remarks in proof of the same doctrine

388

37). Of patriotism or love of country

389

372. Or the affection of friendship

390

373. Of the affection of pity or sympathy

374 Of the moral character of pity

392

375 Of the affection of gratitude :

394

39|

CHAPTER VIJ.

THE BENEVOLENT AFFECTIONS.

LOVE TO THE SUPREME BEING.

376 Man created originally with the principle of love to God

377. That man was original.y created with a principle of love tu God,

further shown from the Scriptures

378 Further proof that man was thus created

397

379. Relation of the principle of supreme love to God to the other

principles of the pathematic sensibilities

380. The absence of this

principle attended with an excessive and sin:

ful action of other principles

381. Further illustrations of the results of the absence of this principle 401

400

CHAPTER VIII.

HABITS OF THE SENSIBILITIES.

382. Meaning of the term habit

383. Of habits in connexion with the appetites

384. Of habits in connexion with the propensities

385. Of habits in connexion with the affections

385. Of the origin of secondary active principles .

THE MORAL SENSIBILITIES OR CONSCIENCE.

4ORAL OR CONSCIENTIOUS STATES OF THE MIND,--MORAL SENTIMENTS

CHAPTER I.

EMOTIONS OF MORAL APPROVAL AND DISAPPROVAL.

887. Reference to the general division .

413

388. Classification of the moral sensibilities

414

389. Nature of the moral emotions of approval and disapproval iv.

390. Of the place or position, mentally considered, of the emotions of

approval or disapproval

116

391 Changes in the moral emotions take place in accordance with

changes in the antecedent perceptions

ib.

392 Of objects of moral approval and disapproval

418

CHAPTER II.

RELATION OF REASONING TO THE MORAL NATURE

393. Of the doctrine which confounds reasoning and conscience

394 Of the close connexion between conscience and reasoning

335. Illustration of the preceding section

398, Or the training or education of the conscience

297. Of guilt, when a person acts conscientiously

FEELINGS F MORAL OBLIGATION.

398. Feelings of moral obligation distinct from feelings of moral appro.

val and disapproval

424

399. Proof of the existence of obligatory feelings from consciousness : ib.

400. Further proof from the conduct of men

425

401. Further proof from language and literature

420

402. Further proof from the necessity of these feelings

427
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403. Feelings of obligation simple and not susceptible of definition 427

404. They are susceptible of differe at degrees

428

405. Of their authoritative and enforcing nature

ib.

406 Feelings

of obligation differ from those of mere approval and dis-

approval

429

107. Feelings of ob.igation have particular reference to the future 430

408. Feelings of obligation subsequent in time to the moral emotions

of approval and disapproval

431

409. Feelings of obligation differ from desires

432

410 Further considerations on this subject .

ib.

CHAPTER IV

UNIFORMITY F ACTION IN THE MORAL SENSIBILITIES.

433

stances

436

41. Of uniformity in the decisions of the moral nature and the princi

ple on which it is regulated
412. The nature of conscience, considered as a uniform principle of ac.

tion, requires that it should vary in its decisions with circum.

434

413. Diversities in moral decisions dependent on differences in the

amount of knowledge

414. Of diversities in moral judgment in connexion with differences

in civil and political institutions
415 of diversities and obliquities of moral judgment in connexion

with speculative opinions

ib.

416. Further illustrations of the influence of wrong speculative npin:

ions

417. Influence of early associations on moral judgments

418. Of diversities in the moral judgment in connexion with an exciter

state of the passions

19. Suggestions on the importance of moral education

120. The mind early occupied either with good or bad principles 443

121. Of the time when moral instruction ought to commence

444

122. Of the discouragements attending a process of moral instruction 445

423. Of the impottance, in a moral point of view, of adopting correct

speculative opinions

424. Of the knowledge of the Supreme Being, and of the study of re-

ligious truth generally

447

446

THE SENSIBILITIES, OR SENSITIVE NATURE.

SENSITIVE STATES OF THE MIND OR SENTIMENTS.

PART II I.

IMPERFECT OR DISORDERED SENSITIVE ACTION..

CHAPTER I.

DISORDERED AND ALIENATED ACTION OF THE APPETITES AND PROP'EN

SITIES.

425. Introductory remarks on disordered sensitive action

451

426. Of what is meant by a disordered and alienated state of the sensi

bilities

ib.

427. Of the disordered and alienated action of the appetites

428. Disordered action of the principle of self-preservatio.? .

429. Disordered and alienated action of the possessory principle :

230. Instances of the second kind or form of disordered action of the

possessory principle

ib.

131. Disordered action of imitativeness, or the principle of imitation

432. Disordered action of the principle of sociality,

457

433. Further remarks on the disordered action of the social propensity 458

434. Of the disordered action of the desire of esteem

435 Disordered action of the desire of power

460

456

459

CHAPTER II.

SYMPATHETIC IMITATION.

136. Of sympathetic imitation, and what is involved in it

461

137. Familiar instances of sympathetic imitation .

462

438. Instances of sympathetic imitation at the poor house of Harlem · 463

439. Other instances of this species of imitation

464

CHAPTER III.

DISORDERED ACTION OF THE AFFECTIONS.

440. Of the states of mind denominated presentiments

441. Of sudden and strong impulses of the mind .

442. Insanity of the affections or passions

443. Of the mental disease termed hypochondriasis

444. Of intermissions of hypochondriasis, and of its remedies

445. Disordered action of the passion of fear

446. Perversions of the benevolent affections

DISORDERED ACTION OF THE MORAL SENSIBILITIES.

447. Nature of voluntary moral derangement.

475

448. Of accountability in connexion with this form of disordered

conscience

476

449. Of natural or congenital moral derangement

477

450. Moral accountability in cases of natural moral derangement 479

DIVISION I I I.

THE WILL.

VOLITIONS, or VOLITIONAL STATES OF MIND.

CHAPTER I.

GENERAL NATURE OF THE WILL.

451. The will the third and last department of the mind

483

452. On the nature of the will

ib.

453. Of the nature of the acts of the will or volitions

484

454. Volition never exists without some object

ib.

455. It exists in reference to what we believe to be in our power 485

456. Volition relates to our own action and to whatever else may

be dependent upon us

486

457. Volitions involve a prospective element

488

458. Volitions may exist with various degrees of strength

ib.

CHAPTER II.

ON THE LAWS OF THE WILL.

459. On the universality of law

490

460. Remarks of Hooker on the universality of law

491

461. A presumption thus furnished for subjection of the will to law 492

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