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	Francis Hutcheson (philosopher) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francis Hutcheson (August 8, 1694 - 1746) was an Irish philosopher and one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment.
		Hutcheson not only maintains that benevolence is the sole and direct source of many of our actions, but, by a not unnatural recoil, that it is the only source of those actions of which, on reflection, we approve.
		To a study of the writings of Shaftesbury and Hutcheson we might, probably, in large measure, attribute the unequivocal adoption of the utilitarian standard by Hume, and, if this be the case, the name of Hutcheson connects itself, through Hume, with the names of Priestley, Paley and Bentham.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Hutcheson_(theologian) (2856 words)

	Francis Hutcheson
		Hutcheson argued that the universality of the moral sense was not diminished by the fact that in some countries, for example, cruelty was exercised against children and the elderly.
		In a similar vein, Hutcheson drifted from a naturalistic description of the senses’ operation to an account of their final causes, the reason why they were implanted in the soul, linked with a providentialist outlook on divine intentions.
		With this array of sociable responses, Hutcheson felt he rectified the narrowness of existing moral theories, their reductive analysis on the one hand, and their tendency on the other to construe law solely as an external force, imposed with the threat of rewards and punishments.
	www.thoemmes.com /encyclopedia/hutcheson.htm (4175 words)

	Francis Hutcheson
		Francis (or Frances) Hutcheson was a professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow, one of the leaders of the Scottish Enlightenment and an early utilitarian thinker.
		Hutcheson opposed Thomas Hobbes's old thesis (later taken up by David Hume) that human conceptions of "right" and "wrong", "virtue" and "vice", were rooted not in any theological or natural conceptions but purely in hedonic pleasure and pain calculations.
		Hutcheson's theory was highly influential on Adam Smith, whom, in his Theory of Moral Sentiments, tried to reconcile the Hutcheson's "innateness" thesis with Hume's hedonistic doctrine.
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/hutches.htm (732 words)

	A System of Moral Philosophy - Francis Hutcheson
		Francis Hutcheson died at the age of fifty-two in 1746, having held the position of Professor of Moral Philosophy in Glasgow for the previous sixteen years.
		With respect to colonies, Hutcheson may have provided a basis for their eventual independence, but he was not an enemy of colonization per se, and took it for granted that such expansion by states was routine and acceptable.
		The scope that Hutcheson allowed for rights arising from 'necessity' (for example, to deceive an invader intent on destruction or to shoot a person who is spreading the plague) struck him as open to considerable abuse.
	www.thoemmes.com /18cphil/moral_intro.htm (946 words)

	Francis Hurcheson - Philosopher and Teacher - 1694 to 1746
		Francis Hutcheson was born in the townland of Drumalig, Saintfield Parish on 8 August 1694, the son and grandson of ministers of dissenting congregations.
		It is well established that Hutcheson contributed, in large measure, to the formation and development of some of the most important of the modern schools of ethics.
		Hutcheson's two primary works are the Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725) and An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations of the Moral Sense (1728).
	www.ulsterhistory.co.uk /hutcheson.htm (379 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Francis Hutcheson
		Hutcheson, Francis (1694-1746), British philosopher, born in County Down, Ireland, and educated at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
		Crick, Francis Harry Compton (1916-2004), British biophysicist and cowinner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
		Picabia, Francis (1879-1953), French artist, associated with several avant-garde movements.
	encarta.msn.com /Francis_Hutcheson.html (108 words)

	Aesthetics - Hutcheson
		Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) helped move aesthetics from theories about Beauty and Harmony, as characteristics of the world, to theories about the experience of the viewer.
		Hutcheson's philosophy was based on the empiricist thinking of John Locke, from whom he got the notion that all of our ideas come from experience.
		Hutcheson distinguished between absolute Beauty, the kind of beauty to be found in nature, and relative Beauty, the beauty that characterizes art.
	www.rowan.edu /philosop/clowney/Aesthetics/philos_artists_onart/hutcheson.htm (335 words)

	Welcome to Down County Museum - Downpatrick
		Hutcheson would have taken courses in logic, in metaphysics, and in moral philosophy which were equivalent to all but the final year of studies at the university in Glasgow.
		Hutcheson's argument against any kind of slavery, nonetheless the principle of liberty that Hutcheson espoused was taken very seriously in the particular context of America's subjugation to Britain.
		In his ruminations Hutcheson helped lay the ground for the modern study of psychology, insomuch as this text, and indeed many of his other books, tried to examine philosophical concepts not in terms of transcendent abstraction but rather in terms of the day-today processes of human perception.
	www.downcountymuseum.com /publications/ds2000/pg31.asp (3466 words)

	Scottish Philosophy in the 18th Century
		Hutcheson's opposition to Hobbesian egoism is matched by his opposition to ethical rationalism, an opposition which emerges in the Illustrations upon the Moral Sense, where he demonstrates that his account of the affections and the moral sense makes sense of the moral facts whereas the doctrines of Clarke and Wollaston totally fail to do so.
		Hutcheson influenced most of the Scottish philosophers who succeeded him, perhaps all of them, whether because he helped to set their agenda or because they appropriated, in a form suitable to their needs, certain of his doctrines.
		Hutcheson emphasises both the complexity of the relations between our natural affections and also the need, in the name of morality, to exercise careful management of the relations between the affections.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/scottish-18th (6787 words)

	Francis Hutcheson - On the Francis Hutcheson - On the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections
		Francis Hutcheson (1694 - 1746) A seminal figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, Hutcheson was the first man to lecture in Scots rather than Latin.
		Francis Hutcheson - On the Francis Hutcheson - On the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections
		Hutcheson argues that the natural inclination of the human being is to be virtuous, since the pleasures of being virtuous are the greatest we can experience.
	www.clinamen.net /francis_hutcheson.htm (320 words)

	Hutcheson, Francis -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Hutcheson was concerned with showing, against the intuitionists, that moral judgment cannot be based on reason and therefore must be a matter of whether an action is “amiable or disagreeable” to one's moral sense.
		Called “the swamp fox,” Francis Marion was one of the boldest and most dashing figures of the American Revolution.
		Francis Bacon wrote essays on beauty and deformity, but he confined his remarks to the human figure.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9311772?tocId=9311772 (717 words)

	Scottish Thought and Letters in the Eighteenth Century
		Francis Hutcheson's inaugural address as Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University, a chair which he held with ever increasing popularity and success until his death in 1747.
		Hutcheson was admitted on 3rd November, 1730, and on this occasion the good cheer seems to have been more than usually abundant, an account of nearly 15 for wine being paid next month, and a further account for wine, fruit, and 'biskets' shortly afterwards.
		Hutcheson writes: 'I had this day a letter from a Presbytery of Pensilvania of a very good turn, regreting their want of proper ministers and books: expecting some assistance here...
	special.lib.gla.ac.uk /exhibns/scottish/phil-religion.html (1545 words)

	Francis Hutcheson in Dublin, 1719-1730
		Recognized as the 'Father of the Scottish Enlightenment' and an intellectual ancestor of the United Irishmen, Francis Hutcheson (1692-1746) is a figure of international significance.
		A Presbyterian, Hutcheson was excluded from active politics in Ireland and yet he was a friend of many in the political establishment.
		Hutcheson was Irish by birth and Scottish by education, making his cultural identity intriguingly complex.
	www.four-courts-press.ie /cgi/bookshow.cgi?file=FHutcheson.xml (184 words)

	Francis Hutcheson (philosopher) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francis Hutcheson (August 8, 1694–August 8, 1746) was an Irish philosopher and one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment.
		After his death, his son, Francis Hutcheson published much the longest, though by no means the most interesting, of his works, A System of Moral Philosophy, in Three Books (2 vois..
		Hutcheson not only maintains that benevolence is the sole and direct source of many of our actions, but, by a not unnatural recoil, that it is the only source of those actions of which, on reflection, we approve.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Hutcheson_(theologian) (2856 words)

	[HUTCHESON, Francis.], An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections. With Illustrations on the Moral Sense. By the Author of the Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue.
		Although born in Ireland, Francis Hutcheson was educated at Glasgow University under the tutelage of Gerson Carmichael.
		[HUTCHESON, Francis.] An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections.
		[HUTCHESON, Francis.], An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections.
	www.polybiblio.com /finch/88610.html (418 words)

	Francis Hutcheson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francis Hutcheson was the name of a famous father and son:
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Hutcheson (76 words)

	The University of Glasgow :: Avenue: for alumni and friends of the University
		Most historians nowadays agree that Francis Hutcheson and the Scottish Enlightenment lay at the heart of the American Revolution, but the initial reaction to Wills' claim, that it was itself revolutionary, is, according to Andrew Hook, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Glasgow, the most revealing aspect of the affair.
		The University of Glasgow's Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith and Thomas Reid were merely the most prominent among a host of Scottish influences on America.
		When Francis Hutcheson was alive San Jose was a small American Indian village on the banks of the Guadalupe River.
	www.gla.ac.uk:443 /avenue/32/na1.html (947 words)

	Francis Steen: Evolved benevolence
		Francis Steen looks at the debate between the materialists and the moralists in the eighteenth century, focusing on the debate surrounding benevolence.
		Francis Steen is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of English.
		His dissertation, Negotiating the Natural Mind, returns to the "first cognitive revolution" of the eighteenth century to negotiate the significance of opening up literary and cultural studies to the cognitive sciences.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /comm/steen/cogweb/Culture/MLA_97_Steen.html (102 words)

	Francis Hutcheson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francis Hutcheson was the name of a famous father and son:
		This page was last modified 15:27, 23 Oct 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Hutcheson (102 words)

	Hutcheson ToC: The Online Library of Liberty
		Francis Hutcheson is one of the central figures in eighteenth-century moral philosophy.
		Francis Hutcheson, An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense (1742)
		This edition makes Hutcheson's seminal work widely available in a critical edition, fully collating the lifetime editions of 1728, 1730, and 1742.
	oll.libertyfund.org /ToC/0150.php (300 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 92023820
		Francis Hutcheson was the first major philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, and one of the great thinkers in the history of British moral philosophy.
		Publisher description for On human nature / Francis Hutcheson ; edited by Thomas Mautner.
		Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Ethics, Modern 18th century, Social ethics, Human beings, Hutcheson, Francis, 1694-1746
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam025/92023820.html (149 words)

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		Francis Hutcheson was a crucial link between the continental European natural law tradition and the emerging Scottish Enlightenment.
		"Francis Hutcheson’s Essay and Illustrations, one of the finest examples of moral-theoretical argumentation in the literature of philosophy, has long been hard to find in any form and has never appeared, in its entirety, in a serious scholarly edition.
		A contemporary of Lord Kames and George Turnbull, an acquaintance of David Hume, and the teacher of Adam Smith, Hutcheson was arguably the leading figure in making Scotland distinctive within the general European Enlightenment.
	www.libertyfund.org /details.asp?displayID=1821 (465 words)

	Houyhnhnm Land » 2004 » September
		Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) brief bio and list of works; there are links, but most of them appear to have rotted
		Aspects of the Influence of Francis Hutcheson on Adam Smith (Enzo Pesciarelli): at Project Muse (subscription required), in History of Political Economy 1999.
		Hutcheson, Smith, and the Division of Labour (Peter C. Dooley): a paper (PDF) on Hutcheson’s influence on Adam Smith.
	www.branemrys.org /archives/2004/09 (1984 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Seventh Sense: Francis Hutcheson and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics
		The Seventh Sense is the definitive study of the aesthetic theory of the great eighteenth-century philosopher Francis Hutcheson, arguably the founder of the modern discipline of aesthetics, and one of the most important figures of the Scottish Enlightenment.
		Part II traces the considerable influence of Hutcheson's theory up to the early years of the nineteenth century.
		Part III is a new and substantial addition to the original work, collecting Peter Kivy's essays on this topic since the first edition appeared, which deal primarily with Hutcheson, David Hume, and Thomas Reid.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0199260028 (270 words)

	Encyclopedia: Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)
		Francis Hutcheson (August 8, 1694â“August 8, 1746) was an Irish philosopher and one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment.
		Hutcheson not only maintains that benevolence is the sole and direct source of many of our actions, but, by a not unnatural recoil, that it is the only source of those actions of which, on reflection, we approve.
		To a study of the writings of Shaftesbury and Hutcheson we might, probably, in large measure, attribute the unequivocal adoption of the utilitarian standard by Hume, and, if this be the case, the name of Hutcheson connects itself, through Hume, with the names of Priestley, Paley and Bentham.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Francis-Hutcheson-(philosopher) (4150 words)

	Francis Hurcheson - Philosopher and Teacher - 1694 to 1746
		Francis Hutcheson was born in the townland of Drumalig, Saintfield Parish on 8 August 1694, the son and grandson of ministers of dissenting congregations.
		It is well established that Hutcheson contributed, in large measure, to the formation and development of some of the most important of the modern schools of ethics.
		Hutcheson's two primary works are the Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725) and An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations of the Moral Sense (1728).
	www.ulsterhistory.co.uk /hutcheson.htm (379 words)

	Hutcheson, An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue ToC: The Online Library of Liberty
		Francis Hutcheson’s first book, An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, was published in 1725, when its author was only thirty-one, and went through four editions during his lifetime.
		A seminal text of the Scottish Enlightenment which was written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury.
		This seminal text of the Scottish Enlightenment is now available for the first time in a variorum edition based on the 1726 edition.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Home3/BookSetToCPage.php?recordID=0449 (362 words)

	Encyclopedia: Francis Hutcheson (songwriter)
		The son of philosopher Francis Hutcheson, he published some of his father's work after the latter's death.
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		He was the author of a number of popular songs, including "As Cohn one evening", "Jolly Bacchus" and "Where Weeping Yews".
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Francis-Hutcheson-(songwriter) (100 words)

	Francis Hutcheson
		Der schottische Philosoph Francis Hutcheson schrieb Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virue (1725) und An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections with Illustrations on the Moral Sense (1728).
		Hutcheson übte durch seine Kritik an der Begründung moralischer Erkenntnis aus der Vernunft (Clarke) und durch seine Lehre von der Verankerung der Moral im Gefühlsleben einen wichtigen Einfluß auf Hume und Bentham aus.
		Hutcheson verwendete den Begriff moral sense, um eine Ethik aufzubauen.
	www.philosophenlexikon.de /hutches.htm (166 words)

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