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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)

Literary Encyclopedia: Hutcheson, Francis Francis Hutcheson was the first in a line of Scottish philosophers that would eventually include David Hume (1711-76), Adam Smith (1723-90) and Thomas Reid (1730-96). Hutcheson greatly disapproved of Hume\'s views on morality, and he allegedly used his influence to thwart Hume from gaining appointment to the chair of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in 1744-45. Hutcheson was troubled by the implications of the hard-line Calvinists in the Scottish Presbytery and by those of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651). www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2275   (1121 words)

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The world's top university of glasgow websites Theologian Francis Hutcheson studied at Glasgow, and protestant reformer John Knox may also have done so. Famous scholars associated with the university include Lord Kelvin, Adam Smith, James Watt, John Logie Baird, Colin Maclaurin, and Joseph Lister. dirs.org /dir-wiki.cfm/university_of_glasgow   (1369 words)

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Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How Hume's role is not to be overstated, of course; it was his countryman Francis Hutcheson who coined the utilitarian slogan "greatest happiness for the greatest numbers". But it was from reading Hume's ''Treatise'' that Jeremy Bentham first felt the force of a utilitarian system: he "felt as if scales had fallen from [his] eyes". www.irelandinformationguide.com /David_Hume?action=edit   (3062 words)

scott hutcheson: Francis Hutcheson I can trace my family back to a Scotch-Irish clan in Virginia during the later 1700s but I can't figure out when they immigrated, Anyway, Francis Hutcheson was a philosopher and theologian who taught at the University of Glasgow. I may or may not be related to this guy. Perhaps his most notable quote is from Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. scotthutcheson.typepad.com /scott_hutcheson/2004/09/francis_hutches.html   (153 words)

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Literary Encyclopedia: Hutcheson, Francis Hutcheson greatly disapproved of Hume\'s views on morality, and he allegedly used his influence to thwart Hume from gaining appointment to the chair of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in 1744-45. Hutcheson was troubled by the implications of the hard-line Calvinists in the Scottish Presbytery and by those of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651). Hutcheson profoundly influenced nearly all later Scottish philosophers, who built upon his ideas and incorporated aspects of them into their own systems or reacted to (and tried to modify) his moral and aesthetic beliefs. www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2275   (1113 words)

SOOP Portal Francis of Marchia - Life and work of 14th century French theologian; by Christopher Schabel. Stoicism - Stoicism was one of the new philosophical movements of the Hellenistic period. Constitutionalism - Philosophical survey of the idea that government should be limited in its powers by law; by Wil Waluchow. www.soopportal.org /odpcat.asp?ID=Society/Philosophy/Reference/Stanford_Encyclopedia_of_Philosophy   (4966 words)

Francis Hutcheson (songwriter) The son of the theologian, Francis Hutcheson, he published some of his father's work after the latter's death. He was the author of a number of popular songs, including "As Cohn one evening", "Jolly Bacchus" and "Where Weeping Yews". www.fact-index.com /f/fr/francis_hutcheson__songwriter_.html   (61 words)

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