...self-interest. The supreme regulating principle of conduct is the moral sense ; which our author defines, a natural and immediate determination to approve certain affections, and actions consequent upon them ; or a natural sense of immediate excellence in them. The affections and actions approved by this sense...

...than the idea or sense of order and proportion." In like manner Dr. Ilutcheson has said, " There is a natural and immediate determination to approve certain affections and actions consequent upon them ; or a natural sense of immediate excellence in them, not referred to any other quality perceivable...

...as produced by the inherited effects of continued experiences, the feelings of likings and aversions we have to acts of certain kinds ; but I mean the...certain affections, and actions consequent upon them'" (p. 38). This description of an intuitional theory is at fault in every particular. There is not, I...

...souls than the idea or seme of order and proportion." In like manner Dr. Hutcheson has said, " There is a natural and immediate determination to approve certain affections and actions consequent upon them ; or a natural sense of immediate excellence in them, not referred to any other quality perceivable...

...than the idea or sense of order and proportion. 77 In like manner Dr. Hutcheson has said, " There is a natural and immediate determination to approve certain affections and actions consequent upon them ; or a natural sense of immediate excellence in them, not referred to any other quality perceivable...

...independent of results experienced by self or ancestors. "There is therefore," says Hutcheson, <fas each one by close attention and reflection may convince...natural sense of immediate excellence" he considers as a supernaturally-derivcd guide. Though he says that the feelings and acts thus intuitively recognized...

...B. 1. eh. 4, p. 58: „There «s, as euch one by dose altention and reflection may convince himseif, a natural and immediate determination to approve certain affections and actions consequent upon them; or a natural sense of immediate excellence in them, not referred to any other quality perceivable by...

...feeling of pleasure, and calls it a judgment of approbation or disapprobation. " It is," he he says,2 " a natural and immediate determination to approve certain affections and actions consequent upon them ; or a natural sense of immediate excellence in them, not referred to any other quality perceivable...

...aftenfdjen, feibft »the rudest of mankind shew such notions« (p. 25). jDtefee moraítfc£)e ®efüí)í tft »a natural and immediate determination to approve...certain affections and actions consequent upon them«. 9lber and) btefee ©efiil)! bebarf unb tft »capable of culture and improvement« , toeií unfere feíbfttfdjen...

...intuitional theory of morals; and we may conveniently deal with such estimates by a criticism on this theory. By the intuitional theory I here mean, not that which...he says that the feelings and acts thus intuitively recognised as good, "all agfee in one general character, of tending to the happiness of others ;" yet...