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Lisa Broussois - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Francis Hutcheson on Luxury and Intemperance: The Mandeville Threat
History of European Ideas, 2015Co-Authors: Lisa BroussoisAbstract:SUMMARYThis paper looks at two figures in the modern, European, eighteenth-century debate on luxury. It claims to better understand the differences between Francis Hutcheson and Bernard Mandeville by exploring how Hutcheson treated the topic of luxury as a distinction between two desires, thus differing from Mandeville's concept of luxury, and a concept of temperance based on moral sense. It explores why Hutcheson believed that luxury was a moral, social and political issue and particularly why he considered Mandeville the embodiment of a threat that went beyond simple considerations of the content of The Fable of the Bees to touch on reflections on the equilibrium of a social and political system. It aims to show how the psychological and the moral dimension were connected to Hutcheson's political theory and how luxury was one of the key points of this connection.
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Francis Hutcheson da beleza a perspectiva do designio
Discurso - Universidade de Sao Paulo, 2014Co-Authors: Lisa BroussoisAbstract:O que e “a outra perspectiva nas obras da natureza”, de que fala Hutcheson? De que forma a beleza prove acesso a ela? O presente artigo discute o lugar dessa “outra perspectiva” na teoria estetica de Francis Hutcheson. Trata-se de compreender por que o designio (design) surge do belo atraves de uma reflexao sobre a beleza em sua Investigacao sobre a origem de nossas ideias da beleza e da virtude, de 1725. Buscaremos determinar se essa teoria estetica estaria subordinada aos argumentos do designio ou se, em Hutcheson, esse campo de pesquisa filosofica ja goza de alguma autonomia.
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Francis Hutcheson et la politique du sens moral
2014Co-Authors: Lisa BroussoisAbstract:Cette recherche porte sur le moment ou la philosophie de Francis Hutcheson, dans ses aspects moraux, epistemologiques et juridiques, contribue a elaborer des questionnements et des solutions innovantes et pratiques, pour le traitement des problemes de la politique moderne. Pour repondre a la question « Qu’est-ce que la politique du sens moral ? », il faut considerer qu’il existe un sens de la moralite naturel, immediat et involontaire chez chaque individu. Ce sens est le critere de jugement de l’action politique la meilleure, selon deux objectifs : le maintien de la paix et de l’harmonie sociale et la poursuite du bonheur, soit du plus grand bien pour le plus grand nombre. Meme si les individus ne peuvent pas toujours agir par le meilleur moyen en vue d’une fin politique et ethique, tous sont aptes a juger de ce qu’il convient de faire. La politique du sens moral considere ainsi 1. Comment l’etat de nature est un etat de liberte ou une sociabilite naturelle est decrite, independamment de la creation des institutions civiles et politiques et aussi, quelles sont les conditions de retour a un tel etat, a partir de l’education morale et politique ? Comment la societe civile et le gouvernement se mettent en place avec un consentement, soit un artifice. 3. Enfin, comment la protection des droits inalienables peut etre assuree avec le concept de responsabilite politique, impliquant le risque pour sa vie en faveur de l’interet commun.
Gatti Andrea - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Francis Hutcheson, Pensieri sul riso e Osservazioni sulla Favola delle api
Mimesis, 2016Co-Authors: Gatti AndreaAbstract:The Reflections Upon Laughter address some topics much debated during the eighteenth century (irony, humor, wit), considered by Francis Hutcheson not only in aesthetic terms, but also political, social, and even physiological, with reference to the eighteenth century theories concerning passions and emotions. In the Remarks Upon the Fable of the Bees Hutcheson takes up the defence of the moral system of Lord Shaftesbury, which had been the object of a ferocious critic by Bernard Mandeville
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Dire il vero ridendo. Teoria e pratica dell'ironia critica in Francis Hutcheson
Mimesis, 2016Co-Authors: Gatti AndreaAbstract:This essay considers Francis Hutcheson's aesthetics of laughter, showing its cognitive and psychological aspects, which somehow anticipate even Sigmund Freud's analysis of wit. Also, the paper shows how Hutcheson's Reflections Upon Laughter and his Observations on the Fable of the Bees gave start towards the middle of the eighteenth century to a critical debate which played a crucial role in the intellectual history of the modern age
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Diderot et l’esthétique de l’empirisme anglais. Du dessein et de la théorie des formes
Mimésis Éditions, 2016Co-Authors: Gatti AndreaAbstract:Denis Diderot kept a fairly close relationship with the eighteenth-century British philosophers, from which he drew many influences and suggestions, even if from a critical point of view, as it can be seen in his translation, made in 1745, of Lord Shaftesbury's Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit (1699), where the free interpretation of the original text offers interesting hints for further investigations; or in the criticism of the aesthetic theories of Shaftesbury and Francis Hutcheson advanced by Diderot in his voice on "Beautiful" (1752) for the Encyclopédie; or again, in the Lockean echoes that resonate in some of his references to the sensory experience as a foundational knowledge. The purpose of this essay is to examine some crucial moments of Diderot's aesthetics, trying to verify the weight and influence of British thinkers, along with the reasons for any discrepancies
Andrew S. Skinner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Smith, Adam (1723–90)
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001Co-Authors: Andrew S. SkinnerAbstract:This article supplies biographical details in so far as they are relevant to the development of Smith's thought. Section 1 deals with Smith's early years in Glasgow University and emphasizes the role of Francis Hutcheson before going on to consider the significance of Smith's visit to Oxford. This article supplies biographical details in so far as they are relevant to the development of Smith's thought. Section 1 deals with Smith's early years in Glasgow University and emphasizes the role of Francis Hutcheson before going on to consider the significance of Smith's visit to Oxford. This article supplies biographical details in so far as they are relevant to the development of Smith's thought. Section 1 deals with Smith's early years in Glasgow University and emphasizes the role of Francis Hutcheson before going on to consider the significance of Smith's visit to Oxford. The second section examines Smith's teaching as a Professor in Glasgow and emphasises the range of thought involved in creating a system of social science. The next part of the analysis considers the role of the French Economists in the development of Smith's thought. Smith spent 6 years after his return from France in Scotland before returning to London where he worked further upon the Wealth of Nations and addressed specific questions dealing with the organisation of public services and the unfolding crisis with the American Colonies. The concluding sections of the argument examine Smith's contribution to economics as a systematic discipline and his influence upon it.
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Pufendorf, Hutcheson and Adam Smith: Some Principles of Political Economy
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 1995Co-Authors: Andrew S. SkinnerAbstract:This article marks the tercentenary of the birth of Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746). It is divided into three sections. The first part of the argument reviews aspects of Hutcheson's treatment of moral philosophy that are essential to the understanding of the economic analysis. The second section considers Hutcheson's treatment of interrelated topics such as the division of labor, property risks, value, and money--tracing in each case the debt to Samuel Pufendorf. The concluding section explores Adam Smith's possible debts to his teacher, especially with reference to the treatment of value. Copyright 1995 by Scottish Economic Society.
Daniel Carey - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson: Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond
2006Co-Authors: Daniel CareyAbstract:Introduction 1. Locke, diversity, and the natural history of man 2. The uses of diversity: Locke's reply to Stoicism 3. Locke's anthropology: travel, innateness, and the exercise of reason 4. Contesting diversity: Shaftesbury's Reply to Locke 5. Method, moral sense, and the problem of diversity: Francis Hutcheson and the Scottish Enlightenment 6. Conclusion: the future of diversity Bibliography Index.
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Method, moral sense, and the problem of diversity: Francis Hutcheson and the Scottish enlightenment
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 1997Co-Authors: Daniel CareyAbstract:Francis Hutcheson, whose work became a leading force in the philosophical and cultural movement known as the Scottish Enlightenment, devoted his first major publication, An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725), to a defence of the third Earl of Shaftesbury. Like Shaftesbury, he believed that mankind shared a fundamental core of moral ‘affections’ and that our ethical responses and motivations exhibited an important consistency. As a result he worried over the implications of diversity which disrupted the picture of an orderly and unified moral world. Continual testimony of savagery, corruption, and incommensurable beliefs potentially undermined the plausibility of the view that a ‘moral sense’ resided in human nature. There are reasons for suggesting that Hutcheson felt this challenge more acutely than Shaftesbury. Hutcheson democratised the moral sense and made its reach encompass all mankind. At the same time, he positioned his philosophy on a more observational basis than Shaftesbury and therefore encountered an obvious objection from reports of diversity. Hutcheson not only adapted what he inherited from Shaftesbury, he was also well disposed towards a number of developments in natural philosophy and epistemology promoted by Locke. Finding a basis for rapprochement between these opposing figures posed a considerable problem. The intriguing tensions created by his synthesis of Locke and Shaftesbury provide the focus of my discussion.
Alexander Broadie - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Francis Hutcheson, George Turnbull and the intersection of aesthetics and morals
2016Co-Authors: Alexander BroadieAbstract:Hutcheson holds that the aesthetic and the moral can be prised apart in the course of an analytic exercise, and this is in fact something that Hutcheson himself accomplishes when he analyses beauty in terms of unity amidst diversity and analyses moral motivation in terms of benevolence. But he believes that the loveliness of a moral act is not a mere accident supervenient upon the act, any more than the morality of a lovely act is accidental to the act. Hutcheson's moral theory is essentially aesthetic.
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Francis Hutcheson adam smith y el estoicismo de la ilustracion escocesa
Anuario Filosófico, 2009Co-Authors: Alexander BroadieAbstract:Among the many philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment who speak approvingly of Stoic philosophy are Francis Hutcheson and Adam Smith, two men who are related, at the University of Glasgow, as professor to appreciative student. As step towards establishing the extent to which the Scottish Enlightenment philosophers were indebted to the Stoics I investigate Hutcheson and Smith and seek to demonstrate that on at least some matters relating to the propriety of having and expressing passion, these two Scottish philosophers were hostil to characteristic Stoic doctrines.
