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 Sherman Library  B1373.F673 E55 2003    AVAILABLE  
 LAW Johnny C. Burris Collection - 3rd Floor  B1373.F673 E55 2003    AVAILABLE  
Author Fordyce, David, 1711-1751.
Title The elements of moral philosophy, in three books with a brief account of the nature, progress, and origin of philosophy / David Fordyce ; edited with an introduction by Thomas Kennedy.
OCLC 50717698
ISBN 086597389X (alk. paper)
9780865973893 (alk. paper)
0865973903 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780865973909 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publisher Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, [2003]
©2003
Description xvii, 212 pages ; 24 cm.
LC Subject heading/s Ethics.
Duty.
Conduct of life.
Philosophy -- History.
Burris Collection.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Book I. Preliminaries -- Of man and his connections -- Of duty, or moral obligation -- Various hypotheses concerning moral obligation -- The final causes of our moral faculties of perception and affection -- Book II. The principal distinctions of duty or virtue -- Of man's duty to himself. Of the nature of good, and the chief good -- Duties to society : Filial and fraternal duty ; Concerning marriage ; Of parental duty ; Herile and servile duty ; Social duties of the private kind ; Social duties of the commercial kind ; Social duties of the political kind -- Duty to God -- Book III. Of practical ethics, or the culture of the mind -- Motives to virtue from personal happiness -- Motives to virtue from the being and providence of God -- Motive to virtue from immortality of the soul, etc. -- Conclusion -- A brief account of the nature, progress, and origin of philosophy.
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