Elements of Morals

CHAPTER I.

PRELIMINARY NOTIONS.

SUMMARY.

=Starting point of morals.=--Notions of common sense.

=Object and divisions of morals.=--Practical morality and theoretical morality.

=Utility of morals.=--Morals are useful: 1, in protecting us against the sophisms which combat them; 2, in fixing principles in the mind; 3, in teaching us to reflect upon the motives of...