The Nature of True Virtue
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A major work in moral philosophy by the noted Puritan divine
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Publishes award-winning books that advance humanities and social science fields, as well as English language teaching and regional resources.
Assists the U-M community of faculty, staff, and students in achieving their publishing ambitions.
Share and access research data, articles, chapters, dissertations and more produced by the U-M community.
A community-based, open source publishing platform that helps publishers present the full richness of their authors' research outputs in a durable, discoverable, accessible and flexible form. Developed by Michigan Publishing and University of Michigan Library.
Contents I. Showing Wherein the Essence of True Virtue Consists 1 II. Showing How That Love, Wherein True Virtue Consists, Respects the Divine Being and Created Things 14 III. Concerning the Secondary and Inferior Kind of Beauty 27 IV. Of Self-Love, and Its Various Influence, to Cause Love to Others, or the Contrary 42 V. Of Natural Conscience, and the Moral Sense 61 VI. Of Particular Instincts of Nature, Which in Some Respects Resemble Virtue 75 VII. The Reasons Why Those Things That Have Been Mentioned, Which Have Not the Essence of Virtue, Have Yet by Many Been Mistaken for True Virtue 85 VIII. In What Respects Virtue or Moral Good Is Founded in Sentiment; and How Far It Is Founded in the Reason and Nature of Things 98
A major work in moral philosophy by the noted Puritan divine