Readings in the History of Æsthetics: An Open-Source Reader; Ver. 0.11
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Francis Hutcheson.[1] Thoemmes Continuum: The History of Ideas Encyclopedia. A thorough summary of Hutcheson's life and works by Daniel Carey from the The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century British Philosophers. Thoemmes Press. 1999. Eds. John W. Yolton, et. al.

History of Ethics Lectures.[2] Classical Utilitarianism Web Site. Four lectures by Stephen Darwall including observations about Hutcheson's æsthetics.

From the reading …

Beauty has always relation to the Sense of some Mind; and when we afterwards shew how generally the Objects which occur to us, are beautiful, we mean that such Objects are agreeable to the Sense of Men…

University of Glasgow, Library of Congress

Notes

[1]

Francis Hutcheson.

[2]

History of Ethics.

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