History 388: Great Personalities in History
“Adam Smith and the Philosophers”

Gregory S. Brown
895 – 4181; gbrown@unlv.edu
M, W, F 10;30 - 11:20; CBC C316

Francis Hutcheson, "The moral sense"

• Scottish Enlightenment

• morality "a sense or instinct"
  
  

• "reason is a subservient power ...to our will"

• "we improve our moral taste ... "

• "the heart can only approve ...in sacrificing every other gratification to moral goodness"
  
  

• "the condition our nature can be raised to by due culture"

• "selfish principles very strong...necessary to improve our affections"