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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

by David Hume (1711–1776)

18 chapters, about 43,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. SECTION I. OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF MORALS. 1,900 words
2. PART I. 400 words
3. PART II. 1,200 words
4. PART I. 2,800 words
5. PART II. 3,500 words
6. OF POLITICAL SOCIETY. 1,900 words
7. PART I. 1,800 words
8. PART II. 3,900 words
9. PART I. 3,300 words
10. PART II. 1,600 words
11. OF QUALITIES IMMEDIATELY AGREEABLE TO OURSELVES. 3,000 words
12. OF QUALITIES IMMEDIATELY AGREEABLE TO OTHERS. 2,100 words
13. PART I. 3,200 words
14. PART II. 1,700 words
15. APPENDIX I. CONCERNING MORAL SENTIMENT 3,200 words
16. APPENDIX II. OF SELF-LOVE. 2,300 words
17. APPENDIX III. SOME FARTHER CONSIDERATIONS WITH REGARD TO JUSTICE. 2,300 words
18. APPENDIX IV. OF SOME VERBAL DISPUTES. 3,000 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Humanities
• Self-love
• Tranquillity

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