Outlines of Moral Science

Name: Outlines of Moral Science
Author: Archibald Alexander

Archibald Alexander (1772–1851) was an American Presbyterian theologian and the first professor of Princeton Theological Seminary. After serving as president of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, he shaped Princeton's warm, experiential Calvinism from 1812 until his death, training a generation of Presbyterian ministers. Our library holds his Thoughts on Religious Experience, Evidences of the Christian Religion, Outlines of Moral Science, and A Brief Compend of Bible Truth.

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First published: 1851
Category: Theology
Length: 45k words · about 3 hours
Chapters: 31

About this book

An outline of moral philosophy by Archibald Alexander, the founding professor of Princeton Seminary, published in 1851. Writing within the Princeton theological tradition, Alexander sets out the principles of moral obligation, conscience, and human duty from a Christian standpoint. The book offers students a compact, orderly introduction to ethics as it was taught in nineteenth-century American Reformed seminaries.

Preface.
Chapter I. Conscience, or the Moral Faculty.
Chapter II. The Moral Faculty, Original and Universal.
Chapter III. A Moral Faculty Being Supposed, Whether Its Dictates are Uniform?
Chapter IV. How Far All Men Are Agreed in Their Moral Judgments.
Chapter V. Whether Conscience is the Same as the Understanding, or a Faculty Different from and Independent of It. 🔒
Chapter VI. The Moral Sense Compared with Taste. 🔒
Chapter VII. Moral Obligation. 🔒
Section VIII. The Supremacy of Conscience. 🔒
Chapter IX. Whether We Always Do Right by Obeying the Dictates of Conscience? 🔒
Chapter X. Whether There Is in the Mind a Law or Rule, by Which Man Judges of the Morality of Particular Actions? 🔒
Chapter XI. The Moral Feeling Which Accompanies Every MOral Judgment. 🔒
Chapter XII. Belief in God, as Connected with the Operation of Conscience. 🔒
Chapter XIII. Moral Agency, and What Is Necessary to It. 🔒
Chapter XIV. Man a Moral Agent. 🔒
Chapter XV. Man Not Under a Fatal Necessity. 🔒
Chapter XVI. Man’s Direction and Government of His Actions, and His Consequent Responsibility. 🔒
Chapter XVII. Objections to the Uniform Influence of Motives. 🔒
Chapter XVIII. Summary View of Liberty. 🔒
Chapter XIX. The Kind of Indifference Which Has Been Considered Essential to Free Agency. 🔒
Chapter XX. Whether Men Are Accountable for Their Motives; or Whether Desires and Affections Which Precede Volition, Have a Moral Character. 🔒
Chapter XXI. The Division of Motives, Into Rational and Animal. 🔒
Chapter XXII. Whether Morality Belongs to Principles as Well as Acts, or is Confined to Acts Alone. 🔒
Chapter XXIII. Moral Habits. 🔒
Chapter XXIV. The Nature of Virtue. 🔒
Chapter XXV. The Nature of Virtue, Continued. Different Hypothesis. 🔒
Chapter XXVI. The Nature of Virtue. Continued. 🔒
Chapter XXVII. Whether Virtue and Vice Belong Only to Actions. 🔒
Chapter XXVIII. The Author of Our Being Considered in Relation to Moral Science. 🔒
Chapter XXIX. The Phenomena of the Universe. 🔒
Chapter XXX. Duties of Man to the Creator as Thus Manifested. 🔒