Moral Sense (Library of Philosophy)

304 pp. Maroon cloth, gilt titles and rules. "...The subject is the rise, progress and decline, of a theory of moral philosophy which prevailed in this country for the greater part of the eighteenth century. Founded by Shaftesbury, and built up by Hutcheson, it derived our moral perceptions from a special "Moral Sense," interpreted on the analogy of the five bodily senses. The book attempts an account of those two leaders, and of their principal followers and critics. The followers include the doubtful supporter David Hume; the critics Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant."--Preface