Francis Hutcheson, leading figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, is too often considered a minor moral philosopher, of interest only for his influence on David Hume and Adam Smith. Yet, Hutcheson created the moral sense theory, and it was within that...

Francis Hutcheson, moral philosopher, led the attempts of the Scottish Enlightenment to ground moral discourse on the presuppositions of current psychological and epistemological theories--primarily those of John Locke--and to construct an ethical...

Hutcheson, Francis [addendum] Although Francis Hutcheson's name is frequently associated with the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), the truth is that once he rejects John Locke's (1632–1704) contention that beauty is a...

Hutcheson, Francis(1694–1746) Francis Hutcheson, a moral-sense theorist, was born at Drumalig in County Down, Ulster. His father and grandfather were Presbyterian ministers. In 1711 he entered the University of Glasgow, taking both the arts and...

Francis Hutcheson (August 8, 1694 – August 8, 1746) was a philosopher born in Ireland to a family of Scottish Presbyterians who became one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment. if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText =...

KIVY, Peter. The Seventh Sense: Francis Hutcheson and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003. xiv + 402 pp. Paper, $24.95--Although nowadays aesthetics tends to be marginalized, all the great philosophers of the world, from Plato and Aristotle on, through St. Bonaventure and...

Picture Plato at the Athenian Academy. Imagine Immanuel Kant bent over his desk in small-town Koenigsberg. Or Hegel and Nietzsche inspiring students in drafty German universities. Marx fending off poverty in London. Not too comfy, right? Ascetic. Definitely cold in winter. Now...