AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS

By David Hume

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The following is an e-text of a 1912 reprint of the 1777 edition of David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. Each page was cut out of the original book with an X-acto knife and fed into an Automatic Document Feeder Scanner to make this e-text, so the original book was disbinded in order to save it.

Some adaptations from the original text were made while formatting it for an e-text. Italics in the original book are capitalized in this e-text. The original spellings of words are preserved, such as "connexion" for "connection," "labour" for "labor," etc. Original footnotes are put in brackets at the points where they are cited in the text.

Contents

APPENDIX.

AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS

SECTION I. OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF MORALS.

SECTION II. OF BENEVOLENCE.

PART I.

PART II.

SECTION III. OF JUSTICE.

PART I.

PART II.

SECTION IV.

SECTION V. WHY UTILITY PLEASES.

PART I.

PART II.

SECTION VI. OF QUALITIES USEFUL TO OURSELVES.

PART I.

PART II.

SECTION VII.

SECTION VIII.

SECTION IX. CONCLUSION.

PART I.

PART II.

APPENDIX I. CONCERNING MORAL SENTIMENT

APPENDIX II. OF SELF-LOVE.

APPENDIX III. SOME FARTHER CONSIDERATIONS WITH REGARD TO JUSTICE.