142 results filtered with: Ethics - Early works to 1800
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A treatise on happiness.
Date: [1759]- Books
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Ploutarchou tou Chairōneōs ta ēthika. Plutarchi chæronensis Moralia, id est opera, exceptis vitis, reliqua. Græca emendavit, notationem emendationum, et latinam Xylandri interpretationem castigatam, subjunxit, animadversiones explicandis rebus ac verbis, item indices copiosos, adjecit, Daniel Wyttenbach, Hist. Eloq. Litt. Gr. Et Lat. In Illustri Athen. Amstelod. Professor.
Plutarch.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]-1830- Books
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Aretē-logia or, an enquiry into the original of moral virtue; wherein the false notions of Machiavel, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Mr. Bayle, as they are collected and digested by the author of The fable of the bees, are examin'd and confuted; ... To which is prefix'd, a prefatory introduction, in a letter to that author. By Alexander Innes, ...
Campbell, Archibald, 1691-1756.Date: 1728- Books
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The fable of the bees: or, private vices publick benefits. Containing, several discourses, to demonstrate, that human frailties, during the degeneracy of Mankind, may be turn'd to the advantage of the civil society, and made to supply the Place of Moral Virtues.
Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733.Date: 1714- Books
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God, and all other reasonable beings, happy in proportion to their virtue. Or, an essay upon moral virtue, ... In a letter to the Revd Dr. Clark, ... By a clergyman.
Warner, clergyman.Date: 1723- Books
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Y siars a roddwyd gan Samuel, Arglwydd Esgob Ty Ddewi, i offeiriaid ei esgobaeth, ar ei ymweliad cyntaf, yn y flwyddyn, 1790. Ynghyd a phregeth ar gnawdoliaeth ein Iachawdwr, gan yr un gwir barchedig awdwr. Wedi eu cyfieithu i'r Gymraeg gan y parchedig John Harries, Curad Llanfrynach, yn Sir Frycheiniog, YN Y Flwyddyn, 1791.
Church of England. Diocese of Saint David's. Bishop (1788-1793 : Horsley)Date: [1791?]- Books
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The philosophick mirrour, or a general view of human oeconomy. Containing, a general system of the natural and revealed laws; and the Branches of Man's Oeconomy in their several Stations of publick and private Life, and proper Reflections for their due Discharge thereof. With notes historical and critical.
Johnson, Samuel, active 1759-1763.Date: [1759?]- Books
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The Oeconomy of human life; or The Christian's companion. Translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin. To which is prefixed an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered, in a letter from an English gentleman, now residing in China, to the Earl of Chesterfield.
Date: [between ca. 1790 and 1810?]- Books
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The fable of the bees: or, private vices, publick benefits. With An essay on charity and charity-schools. And A search into the nature of society. The third edition. To which is added A vindication of the book from the Aspersions contain'd in a Presentment of the Grand-Jury of Middlesex, and an abusive Letter to Lord C.
Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- Books
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The moral instructor; consisting of miscellaneous essays, poems, anecdotes, maxims, &c. calculated to inform the ignorant, reform the reprobate, expose the follies of the age, create cheerfulness, dispel melancholy, promote charity and affection, encourage the improvement of agriculture and commerce; and discourage indolency and extravagancy,
Fallowfield, John, 1680 or 1681-1744.Date: 1795- Books
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The principles of moral philosophy investigated, and briefly applied to the constitution of civil society: together with remarks on the Principle assumed by mr. Paley as the basis of all moral conclusions, and on other positions of the same author. By Thomas Gisborne, M.A.
Gisborne, Thomas, 1758-1846.Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]- Books
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Pensées philosophiques, morales, critiques, littéraires et politiques de M. Hume.
Hume, David, 1711-1776.Date: 1767- Books
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A short introduction to moral philosophy, in three books; containing the elements of ethicks and the law of nature. By Francis Hutcheson, Lld. Late Professor of Philosophy in the University of Glasgow. Translated from the Latin.
Hutcheson, Francis, 1694-1746.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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Two essays: the one on the origin of evil; wherein the difficulties arising from that consideration, are reconciled with the perfections of God, and his Attributes are clearly Vindicated. The other on the foundation of morality; Wherein The Schemes hitherto advanced thereon, are shewn to be Defective; Something New is added, in order to supply those Defects; And the Whole is Defended from all Objections. To which is annexed, a short dissertation on the immateriality of the soul.
Forster, Joseph.Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Books
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All the works of Epictetus, which are now extant; consisting of his discourses, preserved by Arrian, in four books, the Enchiridion, and fragments. Translated from the original Greek, by Elizabeth Carter. With an introduction, and notes, by the translator. In two volumes. ...
Epictetus.Date: 1768- Books
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The enchiridion, or manual, of Epictetus. Translated from the Greek. Carefully corrected
Epictetus.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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An historical and critical account of the science of morality, and the progress it has made in the world, from the earliest times down to the publication of pufendorf of the law of nature and nations: In a prefatory discourse to the said work, by Mr. Barbeyrac, professor in law, &c. Now done into English from the French of the author; together with the authorities and notes in the margin, By Mr. Carew of Lincolns-Inn.
Barbeyrac, Jean, 1674-1744.Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]- Books
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Manners: translated from the French: wherein the principles of morality, or social duties, Viz. Piety, Wisdom, Prudence, Fortitude, Justice, Temperance, Love, Friendship, Humanity, &c. &c. &c. are described in all their branches; the Obligations of them shewn to consist in our Nature; and the enlargement of them strongly enforced.
Toussaint, François-Vincent, 1715-1772.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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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, LL. D. Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh; One of the Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs in Scotland; and formerly Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow. ...
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.Date: MDCCXCVII. [1797]- Books
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The theory of moral sentiments. By Adam Smith, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow.
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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Observations on the principles of Christian morality and the apostolic character: occasioned by Dr. Paley's view of the evidences of Christianity. By the Rev. Peter Roberts, A.M.
Roberts, Peter, 1760-1819.Date: 1796- Books
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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.
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.Date: M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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The fable of the bees: or, private vices, publick benefits. With An essay on charity and charity-schools. And A search into the nature of society. The fourth edition. To which is added, A vindication of the book from the Aspersions contain'd in a Presentment of the Grand-Jury of Middlesex, and an abusive Letter to Lord C.
Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733.Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]- Books
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The soliloquies of the glorious doctor, Saint Augustine: being the secret discourses and conferences of his soul with God.
Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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Præcepta doctrinæ logicæ, ethicæ, physicæ, metaphysicæ, sphæricæq[ue], brevibus tabellis compacta : una cum qu[a]estibus physicæ controversis / à M. Ioanne Stierio.
Stier, Johann, 1599-1648Date: [1647]