Francis Hutcheson (1694 to 1746) was an influential British moralist, an advocate of moral sentimentalism and a key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. Irish by birth, he was educated at the University of Glasgow and finished his career there, returning to Scotland only after his major writings had appeared. Those include the Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue and the Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense. Through his dealings with Adam Smith, Thomas Reid and David Hume he had a tremendous influence on Scottish intellectual life, and his work shaped the wider development of modern moral philosophy.
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he was Irish by birth
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was born in 1694 at Drumalig in County Down, Ulster
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was an Irish-Scottish philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Scottish Enlightenment and Enlightenment
Influenced By: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Biography, influence
Hutcheson developed Shaftesbury's hint of an internal moral sense into a systematic theory of benevolence
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Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) was an influential British moralist
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he was Irish by birth
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While Hutcheson was educated, and completed his career, at the University of Glasgow
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a key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment
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he was Irish by birth
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an advocate of moral sentimentalism
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Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
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a key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment
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an advocate of moral sentimentalism
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renowned as a populariser of the work of Francis Hutcheson and of Adam Smith
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