Francis Hutcheson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1116873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francis Hutcheson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francis |
| FAMILY NAME | Hutcheson |
| SIGNATURE | HUTCHESON F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
An Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
"The Inquiry 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. It consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities. The first treatise argues that human beings possess a natural internal sense of beauty, whereas the second focuses on the "moral sense" that enables us to distinguish virtue from vice and thus to act from moral love …
Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria
An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections
Francis Hutcheson is considered by many scholars of philosophy to be the father of the Scottish Enlightenment. He was influential in defining the modern social, political, economic, and institutional world. Despite his influence, he has been widely forgotten, until now. This considerable volume in Hutcheson's vast work addresses the nature of human the great tradition of Enlightenment thinkers before and after him, Hutcheson is here engaged in a …
Francis Hutcheson on the Rights of Society
In Enlightenment tradition came chiefly to mean human rights, reposing in individuals. Initially few general-in a classic enumeration, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness-human rights have multiplied in modern times through international declarations, convenants, conventions. Several of these rights concern demographic matters, notably reproductive rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in December 1948 (its 50th anniversary b…
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Francis Hutcheson on the Rights of Society
In Enlightenment tradition came chiefly to mean human rights, reposing in individuals. Initially few general-in a classic enumeration, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness-human rights have multiplied in modern times through international declarations, convenants, conventions. Several of these rights concern demographic matters, notably reproductive rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in December 1948 (its 50th anniversary b…
An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections
Francis Hutcheson is considered by many scholars of philosophy to be the father of the Scottish Enlightenment. He was influential in defining the modern social, political, economic, and institutional world. Despite his influence, he has been widely forgotten, until now. This considerable volume in Hutcheson's vast work addresses the nature of human the great tradition of Enlightenment thinkers before and after him, Hutcheson is here engaged in a …
Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria
An Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
"The Inquiry 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. It consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities. The first treatise argues that human beings possess a natural internal sense of beauty, whereas the second focuses on the "moral sense" that enables us to distinguish virtue from vice and thus to act from moral love …
18th century (3 works) · Early works to 1800 (3 works) · Ethics (3 works) · Early works to 1800 (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ethics & Moral Philosophy (2 works) · Ethics, Modern (2 works) · Modern Ethics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)