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The history of philosophy includes the names of many persons, famous in their time, whose contributions to human thought have become, if not entirely forgotten, at least surrounded with obscurity. Such a philosopher is Francis Hutcheson. An outstanding writer and teacher, he was unquestionably one of the most influential philosophers of his day. Yet Hutcheson’s works are no longer widely read. During the centuries between Hutcheson and ourselves, he has been overshadowed by men such as Butler and Hume. Nevertheless careful study of the history of ethics provides convincing evidence of the importance of Hutcheson’s contribution. Since my book will treat this evidence in some detail, I shall present only a few preliminary comments with respect to Hutcheson’s importance.
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David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. by L. A. Selby-Bigge (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1958), p. xxi.
J. Y. T. Greig, ed., The Letters of David Hume (2 vols.; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932), I, 32.
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Jensen, H. (1971). Introduction. In: Motivation and the Moral Sense in Francis Hutcheson’s Ethical Theory. Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idees International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2971-1_1
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