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SECTION ONE
The Principle and Essence of Morality
| I. | The faculty of knowledge is partly necessitated and partly free |
| II. | Morality begins in that part of our knowledge-faculty which remains free |
| III. | Morality expands from the faculty of free knowledge to the affections of the spirit and to external actions |
| IV. | Comments on the power of the will over a part of the faculty of knowledge |
| V. | The moral law: its objective necessity and its eternity |
| VI. | Promulgation of the moral law |
| VII. | The subjective necessity of the moral law |
SECTION TWO
Our System Compared with the Most Noted Systems
| The principle of physical necessity |
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| The principles of pleasure, utility and happiness |
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| The principle of sociality |
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| The principles of fear and force |
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| The principle of common will |
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| The principle of the will of a superior |
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| The principle of charity in a wise person |
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| The principle of universal benevolence |
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| The principles of objective order, appropriateness and beauty |
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| The principle of order in the divine mind |
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| The principle of self-perfection in general |
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| The principle of moral perfection |
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| The principle of the ends of things |
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| The principle of the will of the supreme Being |
SECTION THREE
The Relationship between the Moral and the Religious Principle
| Can the first moral law have the form of an express command of God? |
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| The practical acknowledgement of beings according to truth is confirmed on the authority of Scripture |
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| The notion of religion |
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| Examination of the principal opinions about the relationship between morality and religion |
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| The religious principle renders knowledge of moral duties easy for human beings |
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| Religious sanction its necessity |
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| The moral activity of the human race is rooted in the religious principle |