Titles by Francis Hutcheson

1694 – 1746

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

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Titles

An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections (1742, 2002)

Francis Hutcheson

An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1726, 2004)

Francis Hutcheson

Logic, Metaphysics, and the Natural Sociability of Mankind

Francis Hutcheson

A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy (LF bi-lingual ed.) (1747)

Francis Hutcheson

An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (old version)

Wolfgang Leidhold

British Moralists vol. 1

Jeremy Bentham

The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (2008)

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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