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Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)
Scottish philosopher (1694–1746)
Francis Hutcheson (; 8 August 1694 – 8 August 1746) was an Irish philosopher known as one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Born in Ulster to a family of ScottishPresbyterians, he was Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University and is remembered as author of A System of Moral Philosophy.
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Hutcheson was an important influence on the works of several significant Enlightenment thinkers, including David Hume and Adam Smith.
Biography
Early life
Hutcheson is thought to have been born at Drumalig in the parish of Saintfield, County Down, in modern-day Northern Ireland.
He was the "son of a Presbyterian minister of Ulster-Scottish stock, who was born in Ireland" but whose roots were in Ayrshire in Scotland.[1] Hutcheson was educated at Killyleagh, and went on to Scotland to study at the University of Glasgow, where he spent 1710 to 1718 in the study of philosophy, clas