THE
THEORY
OF
MORAL SENTIMENTS;
OR,
AN ESSAY
TOWARDS
An ANALYSIS of the PRINCIPLES by which MEN naturally judge concerning the CONDUCT and CHARACTER, first of their NEIGHBOURS, and afterwards of
THEMSELVES.
TO WHICH IS ADDED,
A DISSERTATION
ON THE
ORIGIN OF LANGUAGES.
BY ADAM SMITH, L.L.D. F.R.S.
Formerly Professor of Philosophy in the University of Glasgow; and
Author of the Nature and Cause of the Wealth of Nations.
THE SIXTH EDITION.
DUBLIN:
Printed for J. BEATTY and C. JACKSON, No. 32, SKINNER-ROW.
M,DCC,LXXVII.
CONTENTS.
PART I.
Of the Propriety of Action.
Of the sense of propriety Page
CHAP. I. _Of Sympathy_ ibid.
CHAP. II. _Of the Pleasure of mutual Sympathy_ 9
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_ 14
CHAP. IV. _The same subject continued_ 19
CHAP. V. _Of the amiable and respectable virtues_ 27
Of the degrees of the different passions which are consistent with propriety 33
CHAP. I. _Of the passions which take their origin from the body_ 34
CHAP. II. _Of those passions which take their origin from a particular turn or habit of the imagination_ 41
CHAP. III. _Of the unsocial passions_ 46
CHAP. IV. _Of the social passions_ 54
CHAP. V. _Of the selfish passions_ 58
Of the effects of prosperity and adversity upon the judgment of mankind with …