Francis Hutcheson and Contemporary Ethical Theory

A. J. Ayer A. N. Prior account of moral act or person appeal approval or disapproval argued asks Burnet causal explanation characterized Charles Stevenson cheson's conformity to reason consists in conformity contention that virtue David Hume emotivist empirical empiricist epistemology ethical sentences exciting and justifying exciting reasons fact formulated foundation of morals Francis Hutcheson Gilbert Burnet Glasgow greatest number Hutche Hutcheson tells Hutcheson's ethical Hutcheson's position Ibid idea of moral interprets Hutcheson intuited justification in ethics justifying grounds moral approval moral concepts moral discourse moral ideas moral judgments moral philosophy moral pleasure moral right moral sense theory non-cognitive non-descriptive offer pleasure or pain policy of action principle of utility psychological egoism pursuit question rationalists relations remarks Richard Price right and wrong Roderick Firth Shaftesbury shew simple ideas thesis Thrasymachus true proposition truth ultimate end ultimate justifying reason UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA University of Glasgow utilitarian virtue consists virtuous