Elements of Mental Philosophy, embracing the two department of the Intellect and the Sensibilities

Thomas C. Upham

1841

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Section	16

CLASSIFICATION OF THE SENSIBILITIES	20

Of the objects in general which excite emotions of beauty	22

Classification of the natural sensibilities	26

Remarks on the beauty of forms The circle	44

Of the original or intrinsic beauty of colours	50

Further instances of the original beauty of sounds	58

ASSOCIATED BEAUTY	64

General remarks on the nature of habit	232

Objection to these views in respect to habit	238

PART SECOND	245

Proofs of a moral nature from ihe terms used in different languages	251

Evidences of a moral nature even among Savage nations	258

Feelings of obligation subsequent in time to the moral emotions	261

EMOTIONS OF MORAL APPROVAL AND DISAPPROVAL	264

Emotions of moral approval are called forth in connexion with	271

Of fitness considered as an element of associated beauty	70

General nature of emotions of the ludicrous	74

Summary of views in regard to the beautiful	76

Of other methods of exciting emotions of the ludicrous	80

Of colours in connexion with the sublime	82

Considerations in proof of the original sublimity of objects	88

Emotions of regard reverence and adoration	108

The desires characterized by comparative fixedness and perma	114

393	119

Of the nature of the instincts of brute animals	120

APPETITES	127

Of curiosity or the desire of knowledge	133

Remarks on the subject of emulation	140

Of acquisitiveness or the desire of possession	146

Of the twofold action of the propensity to truth	152

The principle of sociality not selfish	158

The social principle exists in the enemies of society	164

The subject illustrated from experiments in prison discipline	170

THE MALEVOLENT AFFECTIONS	174

Other reasons for checking and subduing the angry passions	180

Nature of the passion of fear	186

169	192

Of the moral character of the domestic affections and of the	198

Proofs of a humane or philanthropic principle from the existence	205

Illustration of the statements of the foregoing section	212

Of the affection of gratitude	218

trine bears to the original and permanent character of	220

Illustration of the results of the principle of love to God from	225

Of the close connexion between conscience and reasoning	273

Illustrations of the statements of the preceding section from	279

NATURE OF MORAL SUBLIMITY	286

Of the moral sublimity of great benevolent undertakings	292

Further proof from the conduct of	298

Feelings of obligation have particular reference to the future	305

Feelings of obligation differ from desires	306

265	309

Of diversities in moral judgment in connexion with differences	313

Influence of early associations on moral judgments	319

Of the existence of a moral nature in connexion with public robº	325

Of the origin of the ideas or abstract conceptions of right and wrong	331

The immutability of moral distinctions shown secondly from	337

Shown in the fifth place from the deportment and conduct	344

Of the proofs of this doctrine from the appeals which are made	351

Of the discouragements attending a process of moral instruction	357

122	363

Of the importance of correct morals in connexion with our civil	365

Disordered action of the principle of selfpreservation	372

Of the disordered action of the desire of esteem	378

Of sympathetic imitation in large multitudes	384

Practical results connected with the foregoing views	390

Of the states of mind denominated presentiments	392

Disordered action of the passion of fear	399

Of moral accountability in cases of natural or congenital moral	406

Casual association in connexion with objects and places	413

ORAL SIGNS OR SPEECH	431

CHARACTERISTICS OF LANGUAGES	459

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Titel	Elements of Mental Philosophy, embracing the two department of the Intellect and the Sensibilities
Autor/in	Thomas C. Upham
Veröffentlicht	1841
Original von	Oxford University
Digitalisiert	24. Apr. 2006

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