An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
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Title
An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
Subject
A seminal text of the Scottish Enlightenment which was written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury. It consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities.
Description
His argument of the inquiry: (1) Our ideas have their origin in our perceptions and are received by senses. (2) For different perceptions, we have different senses. (3) Perceptions are founded in certain qualities of the objects perceived. (4) These qualities we can describe in a maxim or formula.
Creator
Francis Hutcheson
Source
Online Library of Liberty
Publisher
Liberty Fund
Date
1726
Contributor
Riwayat Katia
Relation
Humes' A Treatise of Human Nature
Format
Text
Language
English
Type
Printed Book
Coverage
18th Century Minds, The Enlightenment, Sentimentalism
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URL
https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/hutcheson-an-inquiry-into-the-original-of-our-ideas-of-beauty-and-virtue-1726-2004
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Citation
Francis Hutcheson , “An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue,” Enlightenmens, accessed July 5, 2022, http://enlightenmens.lmc.gatech.edu/items/show/252.