The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Part I. Of the Propriety of Action
Section I Of the Sense of Propriety
Chap. I Of Sympathy
Chap. II Of the Pleasure of mutual Sympathy
Chap. III Of the manner in which we judge of the propriety or impropriety of the affections of other men, by their concord or dissonance with our own.
Chap. IV The same subject continued
Chap. V Of the amiable and respectable virtues
Section II Of the Degrees of the different Passions which are consistent with Propriety
Chap. I Of the Passions which take their origin from the body
Chap. II Of those Passions which take their origin from a particular turn or habit of the Imagination
Chap. III Of the unsocial Passions
Chap. IV Of the social Passions
Chap. V Of the selfish Passions
Section III Of the Effects of Prosperity and Adversity upon the Judgment of Mankind with regard to the Propriety of Action; and why it is more easy to obtain their Approbation in the one state than in the other
Chap. I That though our sympathy with sorrow is generally a more lively sensation than our sympathy with joy, it commonly falls much more short of the violence of what is naturally felt by the person principally concerned
Chap. II Of the origin of Ambition, and of the distinction of Ranks
Chap. III Of the corruption of our moral sentiments, which is occasioned by this disposition to admire the rich and the great, and to despise or neglect persons of poor and mean condition
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