An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Opening

SECTION 1

OF THE DIFFERENT SPECIES OF

PHILOSOPHY

MORAL philosophy, or the science of human nature, may be treated after two different manners; each of which has its peculiar merit, and may contribute to the entertainment, instruction, and reformation of mankind. The one considers man chiefly as born for action; and as influenced in his measures by taste and sentiment; pursuing one object, and avoiding another, according to the value which these objects seem to possess, and according to the light in which they present themselves.

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Editoril Introduction and apparatus Tom L. Beauchamp 1999

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