Volume 1

An ethical treatise on the passions, founded on the principles investigated in the philosophical treatise / By T. Cogan.

  • Cogan, T. (Thomas), 1736-1818.
Date:
1807-1810
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    the passions, must in a great measure con- sist in the developement and application of the philosophical principles previously investigated, relative to them. | It is essential to the analytical method to be minute in our examinations. The par- ticular investigation of each branch of the subject must, of consequence, assume. the appearance of a distinct treatise.. The work is accordingly divided into distinct disquisi- tions. The immediate subject of each divi- sion will doubtless manifest its own impor- tance, nor will their mutual relation be less apparent. How infinitely momentous, therefore, must that object be, to which they all have an immediate reference, and which communicates to each separate arti- cle the whole of its importance :——Human Happiness ! So many excellent things have been ‘re- peatedly advanced by men of distinguished talents, concerning the subjugation of the passions to the mandates of reason, that the