The Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of Man (FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE.)

Dugald Stewart

Edité par Wells and Lilly, Court-Street, 1828

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1828. TWO VOLUME COMPLETE SET. Hardcover. Matching set is bound in half leather and brown marbled paper boards. Spines are hubbed, bearing four raised bands. Red and black labels are stamped in gilt lettering and lined in gilt along each hub. On a shelf, this set spans 2.5 inches. VOLUME I: Is divided into three books with subsequent chapters within this volume. Topics include: Our instinctive principles of action; our appetites; our desires of.knowledge, society, esteem, power and superiority; our affections.general observations, of kindred, of friendship, of patriotism, of pity to the distressed, of resentment and the various other angry affections grafted upon it; Our rational and governing principle of action; Of a prudential regard to our own happiness/self-love; Of the moral faculty; Analysis of our moral perceptions and emotions; Of moral obligation; Of certain principles which cooperate with our moral powers in their influence on the conduct.of decency, character, sympathy, the sense of the ridiculous, and of taste; Of the various branches of our duty; Of the duties which respect the deity, principles of natural religion, and of the existence of deity; and of the foundations of our reasoning from the effect to the cause, and the evidences of active power exhibited in the Universe. xi, 296 pp. VOLUME II: Is divided into two books with subsequent chapters and an appendix. Topics include: Preliminary enquiry into the principles of natural religion; argument for the existence of God from final causes; Of the moral attributions of the deity; Evidences of Benevolent Design in the universe; Evidences for a future state arising from the Human Constitution, and from the circumstances in which Man is placed; Of the duties which respect our fellow creatures; Benevolence, Justice, Veracity, and the duties which respect ourselves; Of Happiness; Pleasures.of activity and of repose, of sense, of the imagination, of the understanding, of the heart; Of theories of Moral Approbation; Of the general definition of virtue; On an ambiguity in the words Right and Wrong, Virtue and Vice; Of the office and use of reason in the practice of morality. Appendix follows at the end. iv, 384 pp. CONDITION: Overall VG. External cover shows general wear. Inner hinges of Volume I are starting, yet all four boards are attached, and bindings are sound. Leaves have evenly toned and are foxed throughout. Some dampstaining at the corners, but does not impede on the text. Predominantly unmarked, except for an occasional mark in pencil, and previous owner's name written in both period ink and in pencil on the title pages, and within endpapers. The marbled paper covers are very pretty and even mesmerizing. A handsome, readable set. Full refund if not satisfied. N° de réf. du vendeur 070007

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Titre : The Philosophy of the Active and Moral ...
Éditeur : Wells and Lilly, Court-Street
Date d'édition : 1828
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Very Good
Edition : First American Edition.