BY FRANCIS WAYLAND, D. D. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY COOKE AND CO. GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN, BOSTON; LEAVITT, LORD & CO., NEW YORK; JOSEPH JEWETT, BALTIMORE; ENSIGN & Co., CINCINNATI. - 5 BJ 1251 •W3 Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1835, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Rhode Island. TYPE-CONNER AND COOKE. PLAN OF THE WORK. BOOK FIRST. THEORETICAL ETHICS. CHAPTER I. OF THE ORIGIN OF OUR NOTION OF THE MORAL QUA LITY OF ACTIONS. Section 1. Of moral law 2. What is a moral action 3. In what part of an action do we discover its moral quality 3 6 11 4. Whence do we derive our notion of the moral quality of actions 14 CHAPTER II. CONSCIENCE, OR THE MORAL SENSE. Section 1. Is there a conscience 33 2. Of the manner in which the decision of conscience is expressed 38 3. The authority of conscience 4. Law by which conscience is governed 5. Rules for moral conduct CHAPTER III. THE NATURE OF VIRTUE. Section 1. Of virtue in general 2. Of virtue in imperfect beings 45 59 68 75 79 |