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Joseph Butler | |
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| Bishop of Durham | |
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| Diocese | Durham |
| In office | 1750–1752 |
| Predecessor | Edward Chandler |
| Successor | Richard Trevor |
| Other post(s) | Bishop of Bristol (1738–1750) Dean of St Paul's (1740–1750) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 26 October 1718 (deacon) 21 December 1718 (priest) by William Talbot |
| Consecration | 3 December 1738 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 May 1692 |
| Died | 16 June 1752 (aged 60) Bath, Somerset, Great Britain |
| Buried | 20 June 1752[1] (O.S.) Bristol Cathedral.[2] |
| Nationality | English (later British) |
| Denomination | Presbyterian Anglican (after 1714) |
| Residence | Rosewell House, Kingsmead Square, Bath (at death) |
| Parents | Thomas Butler[1] |
| Profession | Theologian, apologist, philosopher |
| Sainthood | |
| Feast day | 16 June (commemoration) Philosophy career |
| Education | Tewkesbury Academy Oriel College, Oxford |
| Era | 18th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Empiricism, Christian philosophy |
Main interests | Theology |
Notable ideas | Criticism of deism Analogies of religion Circularity objection to Locke's account of personal identity[3] |
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Joseph Butler (18 May 1692 O.S. – 16 June 1752 O.S.)[4] was an English Anglican bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher, born in Wantage in the English county of Berkshire (now in Oxfordshire). His principal works are the Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel (1726) and The Analogy of Religion (1736).
He is known for critiques of Deism, Thomas Hobbes's egoism, and John Locke's theory of personal identity.[5] The many philosophers and religious thinkers Butler influenced included David Hume, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith,[6] Henry Sidgwick,[7] John Henry Newman,[8] and C. D. Broad,[9] and is widely seen as "one of the pre-eminent English moralists."[10] He played a major, if underestimated role in developing 18th-century economic discourse, influencing the Dean of Gloucester and political economist Josiah Tucker.[11]
- ^ a b "Butler, Joseph". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4198. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Adamson, Robert; Grieve, Alexander James (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). pp. 882–885.
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- ^ "Joseph Butler (1692–1752)".
- ^ White (2006), §8.
- ^ J. B. Schneewind, Sidgwick's Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978, p. 47.
- ^ John Henry Cardinal Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua. New York: Modern Library, 1950, p. 41. Originally published 1946.
- ^ C. D. Broad, Five Types of Ethical Theory. Paterson, NJ: Littlefield, Adams, and Co., 1959, p. 83. Originally published 1930.
- ^ James C. Livingston, Modern Christian Thought. New York: Macmillan, 1971, p. 47.
- ^ Peter Xavier Price, 'LIBERTY, POVERTY AND CHARITY IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF JOSIAH TUCKER AND JOSEPH BUTLER', Modern Intellectual History (2017), 1–30. doi:10.1017/S1479244317000518. [1]