ELEMENTS O F Moral Philofophy. IN THREE BOOKS. 1. Of Man, and his Connexions. Of Duty or Moral Obligation.-Various Hypotheses-— Final Causes of our Moral Faculties of Perception and Affection. 2. The principal Diftinctions of Duty or Virtue. Man's Duties to Himfelf. - To Society.-To God. 3. OfPractical Ethics, or the Culture of the Mind. Motives to Virtue from Perfonal Happiness.From the Being and Providence of God.From the Immortality of the Soul. The Refult, or Conclufion. By the late Rev. Mr. DAVID FORDYCE. Profeffor of Moral Philofophy, and Author of the Art of Preaching, inscribed to his Grace the Archbishop of CANTERBURY. LONDON: Printed for R. and J. DODSLEY in Pallmall. MDCCLIV. ELEMENTS OF Moral PHILOSOPHY. ΒΟΟΚ Ι. PRELIMINARIES. Μάλισα ἐπιμεληθέον ὅπως ἕκαςΘ ἡμῶν, τῶν ἄλλων Μαθημάτων αμελήσας, τότε το Μα θήματΘ, καὶ τηρητὴς καὶ μαθητὴς ἔσαι. ἐάν που θὲν οἶος τ ̓ ᾖ μαθῶν καὶ ἐξευρεῖν τίς αὐτὸν ποιήσει δυνατὸν καὶ ἐπισήμονα, ΒΙΟΝ καὶ ΧΡΗΣΤΟΝ * ΠΟΝΗΡΟΝ διαγινώσκον]α, τὸν βελτίω ἐν τῶν δυατῶν ἀεὶ πανταχε αἱρείθαι. αναλογι ζόμενον παν]α, τὰ νῦν δὴ ῥηθέντα, και ξυλι θέμενα αλλήλοις, και διαιρέμενα, πρὸς ἀρετὴν, βία πῶς ἔχει. καὶ εἰδέναι τί κάλλΘ πενίᾳ κ πλέτῳ κραθέν, καὶ μετὰ ποίας τινὸς ψύχης ἕξεως κακὸν ἢ, ἀγαθον ἐργάζετα – πάντα τὰ τοιαῦτα τῶν φύσει πει ψυχην όντων, καὶ τῶν ἐπικλήτων, τί ξυγκεραννύμενα προς άλληλα ἐργάζεται. ὥσε ἐξ ἁπάντων αὐτῶν δύνατον εἶναι συλλογισάμενον αίρεως, πρὸς τὴν τῆς ΨΥΧΗΣ ΦΥΣΙN ἀποβλέποντα, τὸν τε χείρω καὶ τὸν ἀμείνω ΒΙΟΝ. Plat. de Repub. Lib. io. H UMAN KNOWLEDGE has been distributed by Philofophers into different Branches, and into more or fewer Divifions, according to the more or less . |