Moral Sense

PRIMARY SOURCES

Butler, Joseph. The Analogy of Religion. London, 1736. Includes Dissertation of the Nature of Virtue.

——. Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel. London, 1726. Reprint, Five Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue, edited by Stephen L. Darwall. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1983. Contains the five most important of the original fifteen Sermons.

Hume, David. Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. London, 1751. Reprint, edited by L. A. Selby-Bigge and P. H. Nidditch. Oxford: Clarendon, 1975.

——. A Treatise of Human Nature. 3 vols. London, 1739–1740. Reprint, edited by L. A. Selby-Bigge and P. H. Nidditch. Oxford: Clarendon, 1985.

Hutcheson, Francis. An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of Passions and Affections with Illustrations Upon the Moral Sense. London, 1728. Reprint, edited by Aaron Garrett. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2002.

——. An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. London, 1725. Reprint, edited by Wolfgang Leidhold. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004.

Raphael, D. D., ed. British Moralists, 1650–1800. Vols. 1 and 2. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1991. Contains important selections from the sentimentalists as well as their opponents.

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of. Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. London, 1711. Reprint, edited by Lawrence E. Klein. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London and Edinburgh, 1759. Reprint, edited by D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie. Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1982.

SECONDARY SOURCES

Baier, Annette. A Progress of Sentiments. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991.

——. Moral Prejudices. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Blackburn, Simon. Ruling Passion: A Theory of Practical Reasoning. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Darwall, Stephen. The British Moralists and the Internal "Ought": 1640–1740. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Gibbard, Allan. Wise Choices, Apt Feelings: A Theory of Normative Judgment. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Korsgaard, Christine. The Sources of Normativity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Schneewind, J. B. The Invention of Autonomy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Schneewind, J. B., ed. Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Contains selections from moral philosophers from Britain as well as the Continent.