HUTCHESON, FRANCIS

hŭchˈəsən, 1694–1746, British philosopher, b. Co. Down, Ireland. He was a professor at the Univ. of Glasgow from 1729 until his death. His reputation rests on four essays published anonymously while he was living in Dublin, prior to his college teaching. Two of them were included in An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725) and two in An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense (1728). Although one of the first to write on the subject of aesthetics, he was primarily known in the field of ethics. According to Hutcheson, man has many senses, the most important of which is the moral sense. This "benevolent theory of morals," in which man has a desire to do good, was a development of Shaftesbury's natural affection to benevolent action and was in opposition to Hobbes's theories. The criterion of moral action was the "greatest happiness for the greatest numbers," an anticipation of the utilitarian philosophers in word as well as spirit.

See his System of Moral Philosophy (with memoir by Rev. W. Leechman, 1755). See studies by W. L. Taylor (1965), P. Kivy (1976), and V. Hope (1989).

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The Seventh Sense: Francis Hutcheson and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics
Book by Peter Kivy; Clarendon Press, 2003
Subjects: Aesthetics, British--18th Century, Hutcheson, Francis--1694-1746
...Sense The Seventh Sense Francis Hutcheson and Eighteenth-Century British...Peter. The seventh sense: Francis Hutcheson and eighteenth-century British...bibliographical references (p.). 1. Hutcheson, Francis, 1694-1746. 2. Aesthetics...
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Private and Public: Individuals, Households, and Body Politic in Locke and Hutcheson
Book by Daniela Gobetti; Routledge, 1992
Subjects: Hutcheson, Francis--1694-1746--Contributions In Political Science, Locke, John--1632-1704--Contributions In Political Science, Political Participation--Philosophy, Political Science--Philosophy, Political Sociology, Sociological Jurisprudence
...in political science. 2. Hutcheson, Francis, 1694-1746-Contributions in...4 A new public 106 Francis Hutcheson Natural sociability...important ones are John Locke and Francis Hutcheson. Both are here considered in...
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The Rise of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment
Book by Tatsuya Sakamoto, Hideo Tanaka; Routledge, 2003
Subjects: Economics--Scotland--History--18th Century, Economists--Scotland--Biography, Enlightenment--Scotland, Fletcher, Andrew--1655-1716, Hume, David--1711-1776, Hutcheson, Francis--1694-1746, Philosophy, Scottish--18th Century, Scotland--Intellectual Life--18th Century, Smith, Adam--1723-1790, Stewart, Dugald--1753-1828
...Andrew Fletcher, Robert Wallace, Francis Hutcheson, William Robertson, John Millar...Fletcher, Andrew, 1655-1716. 9. Hutcheson, Francis, 1694-17446. 10. Stewart...Morality, polity and economy in Francis Hutcheson...
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The Life of Francis Place, 1771-1854
Book by Graham Wallas; Franklin, 1951
Subjects: Place, Francis--1771-1854
THE LIFE OF FRANCIS PLACE BY GRAHAM WALLAS Our Social...Frasers Magazine April, 1836 THE LIFE OF FRANCIS PLACE 1771-1854 BY GRAHAM WALLAS...1898. When the book first appeared, Francis Place was almost entirely unknown. But...
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Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Book by Josiah Blackmore, Gregory S. Hutcheson; Duke University Press, 1999
Subjects: Homosexuality And Literature, Homosexuality--Portugal, Homosexuality--Spain, Literature And Society--Portugal, Literature And Society--Spain, Sex In Literature
...collaborative scholarship. Gregory S. Hutcheson and Josiah Blackmore...himself acted, in the words of Francisco Marquez-Villanueva, as "creative...interaction." Gregory S. Hutcheson also subscribes to the idea...converted to Christianity. Hutcheson examines the case of Alvaro...
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Kivy, Peter. the Seventh Sense: Francis Hutcheson and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics
Journal article by Virgil Nemoianu; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 58, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Seventh Sense: Francis Hutcheson and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics (Book)--Book reviews
...Peter. the Seventh Sense: Francis Hutcheson and Eighteenth-Century British...Peter. The Seventh Sense: Francis Hutcheson and Eighteenth-Century British...paternity of the somewhat obscure Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746). The second edition...
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Moral Sense and Natural Reason
Journal article by Maria Elton; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 62, 2008
Subjects: Hutcheson, Francis--Criticism and interpretation, Morality--Analysis, Philosophers--Criticism and interpretation, Reason--Analysis
...on the moral philosophy of Francis Hutcheson have increased. In addition...enormous influence on his thought. Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) belonged to a Scottish...155) (1) See William Scott, Francis Hutcheson (New York: August M. Kelley...
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Adam Smith's Views on Religion and Social Justice
Journal article by Thomas J. Ward; International Journal on World Peace, Vol. 21, 2004
Subjects: Economics--Analysis, Economics--Research, Hume, David, Hutcheson, Francis, Novak, Michael, Smith, Adam, Spencer, Herbert
...to hard-line Presbyterians. Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746), the mentor of...figures such as David Hume, Francis Hutcheson, and Smith seem to have resisted...Glasgow and was the mentor of Francis Hutcheson who himself became the mentor...
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Feigning Fictions: Imagination, Hypothesis, and Philosophical Writing in the Scottish Enlightenment
Journal article by Catherine Packham; The Eighteenth Century, Vol. 48, 2007
Subjects: Aesthetics, Age of Enlightenment, English literature, Hutcheson, Francis (1694-1746), Imagination, Literary criticism, Philosophy, Scotland, Theory, Values
...associated with "literature," however, Francis Hutchesons Inquiry into the Original of...is experienced as pleasurable, Hutcheson allows himself a digression to...Capacity above our Imagination.1 Hutchesons interest in the "Theorem" is...
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Journal of the History of Philosophy: Vol. 46, No. 2, April 2008
Journal article; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Enlightenment (Cultural movement)--Analysis, Enlightenment--Analysis, Hutcheson, Francis--Criticism and interpretation, Hutcheson, Francis--Works, Ibn Tufayl, Abu Bakr Muhammad--Criticism and interpretation, Ibn Tufayl, Abu Bakr Muhammad--Works, Islamic philosophy--Portrayals, Kant, Immanuel--Criticism and interpretation, Kant, Immanuel--Speeches, lectures and essays, Philosophy, Islamic--Portrayals, Reason--Analysis, Virtue--Analysis, Virtues--Analysis
...and his fellow human beings. Religion in Hutchesons Moral Philosophy, JAMES A. HARRIS It is...and a future state are key components of Hutchesons account of moral virtue. Though Hutcheson holds that human beings are naturally virtuous...
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The Idea of Compassion: The British vs. the French Enlightenment
Magazine article by Gertrude Himmelfarb; Public Interest, Fall 2001
Subjects: Enlightenment--Analysis, Political ethics--Analysis, Social problems--Moral and ethical aspects, Sympathy--Philosophy
...the University of Glasgow, as Francis Hutcheson had been before him and Thomas...eighteenth-century greats-- Bishop Berkeley, Francis Hutcheson, Edward Gibbon, Adam Smith...secondary, instrumental role. Francis Hutcheson, who first enunciated the principle...
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The Forgotten Founder: John Witherspoon
Magazine article by Roger Kimball; New Criterion, Vol. 24, June 2006
Subjects: Cabinet officers--Appreciation, Cabinet officers--Biography, Cabinet officers--Works, Cabinet officials--Appreciation, Cabinet officials--Biography, Cabinet officials--Works, Witherspoon, John--Appreciation, Witherspoon, John--Biography, Witherspoon, John--Works
...and such pillars of the cultural establishment as Francis Hutcheson. In 1745, the year he was ordained, Witherspoon anonymously...deprecated because of his rejection of innate ideas, Francis Hutcheson because he underestimated mans sinfulness, but in...
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Value: Culture and Commerce; Led by Richard MacCormac, the RA Forum Set out to Unpick Architecture's Relationship with Value, Culture and Commerce, Concluding with a Discussion of One Manifestation of Values within Architecture, the Icon
Magazine article by Jeremy Melvin; The Architectural Review, Vol. 218, August 2005
Subjects: Architectural firms--Growth, Architectural firms--Product information, Architectural practice--Growth, Architectural practice--Product information, Architectural services--Growth, Architectural services--Product information
...aesthetic. It was an Irishman, Francis Hutcheson, who wrote the first substantial...in 1725. Taste, according to Hutcheson, was an internal sense, by which...pleasure as lying within the object. Hutcheson, in contrast, says that beauty...
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Socrates' Mistake: The Philosopher's View of Knowledge-Forever Demanding Explanations, Justifications, Definitions, and Criteria-Is a Fantasy, and a Dangerous Fantasy
Magazine article by George Watson; American Scholar, Vol. 74, Spring 2005
Subjects: Philosophy--Criticism and interpretation, Questioning--Criticism and interpretation, Socrates--Criticism and interpretation, Socrates--Influence
...called human. Three centuries ago Francis Hutcheson, an Irish philosopher lecturing...David Hume wrote as a friend to Hutcheson in March 1740: I wish from...dangerous fantasy. Many people, as Hutcheson wrote in 1728, in the preface...
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Unsung Heroines: Contributions of Selected Early Twentieth-Century Women to American Piano Pedagogy
Magazine article by Debra Brubaker Burns, Anita Jackson, Connie Arrau Sturm; American Music Teacher, Vol. 52, December 2002
Subjects: Pianists--Appreciation, Pianists--History, Piano music--History, Women musicians--Appreciation, Women musicians--History
...Great Pianists on Piano Playing, ed. James Francis Cooke (Bryn Mawr: T. Presser, 1917; reprint...Great Pianists on Piano Playing, ed. James Francis Cooke (Bryn Mawr: T. Presser, 1917; reprint...Great Pianists on Piano Playing, ed. James Francis Cooke (Bryn Mawr: Theodore Presser, 1917...
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BBC Man Honoured; University of Ulster Graduations at Jordanstown
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), July 5, 1997
...Mary Fiona OHara, Helen OHare, Michael Francis Rice, Margaret Ann Rutter, Carol Sands...William Gordon, Vincent Grant, Sean Gerald Hutcheson, Wendy Jane Malone, Kevin Martin, Colin...French, Robert George Gilliland, James Francis Keenan, Marie Josephe ODonoghue, Trevor...
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University of Ulster - Coleraine - Degrees of Excellence at Ulster Graduations
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), June 28, 2005
...COMBINED ARTS First Class Honours Deirdre Kennedy Ciaran Francis Mackin Second Class Honours Upper Division Anne Black Catherine...Guy Kathy Haughey Katrina Arlene Hughes Catherine Louise Hutcheson Joanne Alexandra Little Jennifer Mac Entee Caitriona McBride...
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Football: MY STOMACH WAS IN NOTTS; English Action: Forest Star Gregor Robertson on Why He Hated Leaving Mum Behind
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), October 3, 2004
...tradition. Legendary names like the late Brian Clough, Trevor Francis, Martin ONeill, Roy Keane and Stuart Pearce are synonymous...club hes joined at the City Ground. He said: I started with Hutcheson Vale in Edinburgh when I was about 10 or 11 and played with...
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For the Record
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), September 9, 2004
...in charge of arrangements. Hutcheson - Eugenia Catherine Hutcheson, 80, of Springfield, died Sept. 7. Major Family Funeral Home, Springfield, in charge of arrangements. King - Francis "Sonny" "Frank" King, 67, of Eugene, died Sept. 5. A memorial...
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Anti-Tax Republicans Hail 2nd District Nominee
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 13, 2004
...the campaign committees chairman, solicited money from Mr. De Francis during visits to the Laurel Park racetrack. "It was alleged...indication that the Kerry campaign has pulled up stakes," said Ken Hutcheson, who is President Bushs Virginia campaign director. "You...
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Hutcheson, Francis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HUTCHESON, FRANCIS huch s n, 1694 1746, British philosopher, b. Co. Down, Ireland. He...aesthetics, he was primarily known in the field of ethics. According to Hutcheson, man has many senses, the most important of which is the moral sense...
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Ethics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...thinking. Intuitionists (Ralph Cudworth, Samuel Clarke), moral-sense theorists (the 3d earl of Shaftesbury , Francis Hutcheson ), and sentimentalists (J. J. Rousseau , Pierre-Simon Ballanche ) postulated an innate moral sense, which serves...
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Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3d Earl Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...influence, especially in Germany, was considerable; his ideas were further developed by the British philosopher Francis Hutcheson . Shaftesbury collected most of his important essays in Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711...


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