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The complete and original title of Hutcheson’s Inquiry indicates that in this work the principles of Shaftesbury are to be explained and defended against those of Mandeville, the author of the Fable of the Bees. There can be no doubt that Hutcheson’s moral philosophy owes a great deal to the influence of Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury. For this reason I propose to present a very brief examination of some of those issues in Shaftesbury’s theory which are related to Hutcheson’s moral sense theory.
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Jensen, H. (1971). Hutcheson’s Moral Sense Theory. 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_3
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