Francis Hutcheson

Standard Name: Hutcheson, Francis

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Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Gilding
The poems in pastoral form include religious meditations, hymns for Christmas, Easter, and other Christian festivals, love complaints, and addresses to abstracts such as Pride and Sincerity. Despair is a dramatic mini-narrative, beginning Moments on...
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Lennox
Many of these poems, nevertheless, tackle knotty subject-matter. On Reading Hutchinson on the Passions responds to Francis Hutcheson 's Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, 1728. Since Hutcheson was...

Timeline

1725: Francis Hutcheson published anonymously,...

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1725

Francis Hutcheson published anonymously, in two separate forms, An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, in two treatises, one on aesthetics (beauty, order, harmony, design) and one...

1755: Francis Hutcheson's A System of Moral Philosophy...

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1755

Francis Hutcheson 's A System of Moral Philosophy appeared posthumously (expanded from A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy, 1747, and its Latin version, 1745). As well as presenting God as benevolent and the passions...

1759: Adam Smith published with the Scottish firm...

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1759

Adam Smith published with the Scottish firm of Millar, Kincaid and BellThe Theory of Moral Sentiments.

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