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With quotations from the writings of several persons of note, viz. George Wallis (sic, for Wallace), Francis Hutcheson, and James Foster, and a large extract from a pamphlet, lately published in London, on the subject of the slave trade.

A System Of Moral Philosophy: In Three Books: To which is Prefixed Some Account Of The Life, Writings, And Character Of The Author, Volume 1. Francis Hutcheson. Free. Synopsis metaphysicae. (By Francis Hutcheson.) Editio septima. Francis Hutcheson. Free. An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections. Francis Hutcheson. Free. A Vindication of Mr. Hutcheson from the.

The result for Hutcheson was often tension in his thought—which in the end produced a farrago when he tried to create a system of moral philosophy. Throughout his writing career, Hutcheson’s views on the problem of moral motivation were a combination of change and development against a background of certain constant views. A close.

Introduction. An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense (1728), jointly with Francis Hutcheson’s earlier work Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725),1 presents one of the most original and wide-ranging moral philosophies of the eighteenth century. These two works, each comprising two semiautonomous.

Francis Hutcheson is commonly seen as a theorist of natural rights, including the right to a free conscience. However, his notion of conscience is of a moral faculty that is subject to education.

Francis Hutcheson. Historical Timeline Index by Topic. the Inquiry concerning Moral Good and Evil, the Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections and Illustrations upon the Moral Sense, all published between 1725 and 1728. But his textbooks on moral philosophy have perhaps had the most impact. Historian Douglas Sloan, for example, attests to their influence in early.

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In 1728, he completed An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections. With Illustrations upon the Moral Sense, which was issued in a revised form in 1742. The widespread interest these works generated led to Francis Hutcheson’s being elected Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow in 1729. He had great impact as a teacher.

The last work was published anonymously. 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. London, 1755).

Often described as the father of the Scottish Enlightenment, Francis Hutcheson was born in the north of Ireland to an Ulster-Scottish Presbyterian family. Organised into three 'books' that were divided between two volumes, A System of Moral Philosophy was his most comprehensive work. It synthesised ideas that he had formulated as a minister and.

Francis Hutcheson was born in the townland of Drumalig, Saintfield Parish on 8 August 1694, the son and grandson of ministers of dissenting congregations. Educated partly by his grandfather, partly at an academy, he entered the University of Glasgow in 1710, where he spent six years, at first in the study of philosophy, classics and general.