Hutcheson, Francis

philosopher, sometimes considered as the founder of the Scottish school. He was born in 1694 in Ireland; studied at Glasgow; and, on his return to Ireland, officiated in a Presbyterian congregation, for some time, in the northern part of that kingdom; but in 1729 he was elected profe or of moral philosophy at Glasgow. He had previously published An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, and a Treatise on the Nature and Conduct of the Pa ions. In 1755, his son, Dr. FRANCIS H., a physician of Glasgow, printed from his father's papers, A System of Moral Pinlosophy, 2 vols. 4to.; to which is prefixed an account of the author. D. 1747.