LECTURES

ON

THE PHILOSOPHY

OF

The Human Mind.

BY THE LATE

THOMAS BROWN, M. D.

PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

CORRECTED FROM THE LAST LONDON EDITION.

STEREOTYPED BY T. H. CARTER & CO. BOSTON.

Hallowell:

GLAZIER, MASTERS AND SMITH.

1839.

Relation of the Philosophy of Mind to the Sciences in general,

LECTURE III.

Relation of the Philosophy of Mind to the Intellectual Sciences and Arts, 25

LECTURE IV.

Relation of the Philosophy of Mind to the Cultivation of Moral Feeling, .

Recapitulation of the Four preceding Lectures,

Application of the Laws of Physical Inquiry to the Study of Mind,

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LECTURE LIX.

Continuation of the same Subject,

Immediate Emotions, involving necessarily some Moral Feeling,

1. Feelings distinctive of Vice and Virtue,

2. Love and Hate,

LECTURE LX.

Continuation of the same Subject,

Remarks on the Utility of these Emotions,

LECTURE LXI.

Conclusion of the Emotions of Love and Hate,

3. Sympathy,

LECTURE LXII.

Conclusion of the Emotion of Sympathy,

4. Pride and Humility,

LECTURE LXIII.

II. Retrospective Emotions, having relation to others,

III. Prospective Emotions, comprehending our Desires and Fears,

Classification of them,

Modes of our different Desires,

1. Desire of our own continued Existence,

LECTURE LXVI.

III. Prospective Emotions,

2. Desire of Pleasure,

3. Desire of Action,

General Considerations on concluding the Physiology of Mind,

Introduction to Ethics,

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On Obligation, Virtue, Merit, and the Nature of an Action in Morals,

An action in Morals, is nothing distinct from the Agent,

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