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Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics

PART II
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(concluding the work) discusses some cases connected with the duration of the 'Politick Union.' This bare indication of topics will suffice to give an idea of the working out of Hutcheson's system.

For summary:--I .-- The Standard, according to Hutcheson, is identical with the Moral Faculty.

It is the Sense of unique excellence in certain affections and in the actions consequent upon them.

The object of approval is, in the main, benevolence.
II .-- His division of the feelings is into calm and turbulent, each of these being again divided into self-regarding and benevolent.

He affirms the existence of pure Disinterestedness, a _calm_ regard for the most extended well-being.


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