An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue

Description

"The Inquiry was written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury. It consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities. The first treatise argues that human beings possess a natural internal sense of beauty, whereas the second focuses on the "moral sense" that enables us to distinguish virtue from vice and thus to act from moral love or "benevolence.""--Jacket.

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Genres

• Early works to 1800

Series Statement

• Natural law and enlightenment classics

Other Editions

• An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue: in two treatisesLiberty Fund2008-01-01
• An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtuePrinted by J. Darby ..., for Wil. and John Smith ... Dublin; and sold by W. and J. Innys ..., J. Osborn and T. Longman ..., and S. Chandler ...1725-01-01
• An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtuePrinted by J. Darby, for W. and J. Smith, Dublin; and sold by W. and J. Innys [etc.]1725-01-01
• An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtueJ. Darby [etc.]1726-01-01
• Ideas of beauty and virtueMicroformPrinted for J. Darby ...1726-01-01
• An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtuePrinted for J.and J. Knapton, etc1729-01-01