Francis Hutcheson

1694 - 1746

About the Author

Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he assumed the chair of Moral Philosophy in 1729.

In The Library:

• author: British Moralists, being Selections from Writers principally of the Eighteenth Century, vol. 1 (1897)
• author: An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense (1742)
• author: An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1726)
• author: Logic, Metaphysics, and the Natural Sociability of Mankind (1730)
• translator: The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (1742)
• author: Philosophiae moralis institutio compendiaria with a Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy (1747)