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Born on 18 May 1692 at Wantage in Berkshire, the son of a retired linen draper, Joseph Butler was educated at the Dissenting Academy at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire and later at Oriel College Oxford, a college he entered as a commoner in 1715. On leaving Oxford he was ordained in the Anglican Church where in the course of his career he held several ecclesiastical appointments, including the Deanship of St Paul, before being preferred to the see of Bristol in 1738. In 1750 he was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Durham, a see he was to preside over for only two years before his death in 1752.
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A. Duncan-Jones, Butler’s Moral Philosophy (London 1952), p. 35.
C. D. Broad, Five Types of Ethical Theory (London 1930), p. 57.
F. Hutcheson, An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense, 3rd ed. (1730), p. 29.
T. H. McPherson, in Philosophy (1948).
A. E. Taylor, ‘Some Features of Butler’s Ethics’ in Philosophical Studies (London, 1934).
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Roberts, T.A. (1973). Benevolence in Butler’s Sermons. In: The Concept of Benevolence. New Studies in Practical Philosophy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01082-0_3
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