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Francis Hutcheson

An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design

Francis Hutcheson( )
Author: Hutcheson, Francis
Editor: Kivy, Peter
Series title:Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idées Minor Ser.
ISBN:978-90-247-1545-9
Publication Date:Jul 1973
Publisher:Springer Netherlands
Imprint:Springer
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $109.99
Book Description:

THE SENSE OF BEAUTY: A FIRST APPROXIMATION It is generally acknowledged that during the first half of the eighteenth century a profound change was wrought in the theory of art and natural beauty. To this period we owe the establishment of the modem system of the arts. 1 In England, the notion of a separate and autonomous disci­ pline devoted solely to art and to beauty came into being through the concept of "aesthetic disinterestedness. " 2 In addition, emphasis in the theory of art...
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Book Details
Pages:123
Detailed Subjects: Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Philosophy / Aesthetics
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.24 x 9.36 Inches
Book Weight:0.999 Pounds
Author Biography
Hutcheson, Francis (Author)
The founder of moral sense theory was born in County Down, Ireland. Francis Hutcheson's father and grandfather were Presbyterian ministers, and he studied at the University of Glasgow from 1711 to 1717 in preparation for the Presbyterian ministry. For the next decade, he taught at an academy for dissenting clergy in Dublin, most of the time serving as its head. He was appointed professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow in 1730, a position he held until his death.

Hutcheson's principal contributions to philosophy were in the fields of moral philosophy and aesthetics. His chief works are Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725), Philosophiae Moralis Institutio (1742), and the posthumously published System of Moral Philosophy (1755). Against the English rationalists Samuel Clarke and Richard Price, Hutcheson rigorously developed Shaftesbury's suggestion that moral distinctions are made by our sensitive rather than our rational nature. In aesthetics he gave an analogous account of our sense of beauty. Hutcheson's theories profoundly influenced Hume and also had a significant impact on Kant in his precritical period.

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