Francis Hutcheson Quotes on Nature
Francis Hutcheson was an Irish-born philosopher and the leading figure of the early Scottish Enlightenment. This page collects quotes attributed to Francis Hutcheson on the topic of nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Francis Hutcheson:
“Beauty is uniformity amidst variety.”
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Attributed to Francis Hutcheson:
“Benevolence is natural to us, as much as is self-love.”
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Attributed to Francis Hutcheson:
“The moral sense is the gift of nature, not the construction of reflection.”
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“An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections (1728), Treatise II: Illustrations upon the Moral Sense, Sect. I”
All our Ideas, or the materials of our reasoning or judging, are received by some immediate Powers of Perception internal or external, which we may call Senses … Reasoning or Intellect seems to raise no new Species of Ideas, but to discover or discern the Relations of those received.