Joseph Butler

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Joseph Butler was an 18th-century English Anglican bishop, theologian, and philosopher best known for his influential works on ethics, human nature, and critiques of deism.

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instanceOf Anglican bishop
Christian ethicist
human
philosopher
theologian
birthDate 1692-05-18
birthPlace Wantage, Berkshire, England
linked to: Wantage
burialPlace Bristol Cathedral
centuryOfActivity 18th century
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
critiqued Bernard Mandeville’s moral theory
Thomas Hobbes’s egoism
deism
deathDate 1752-06-16
denomination Church of England
educatedAt Oriel College, Oxford
Samuel Jones’s dissenting academy at Gloucester
fieldOfWork Christian theology
ethics
moral philosophy
philosophy of religion
fullName Joseph Butler
hasPhilosophicalConcept conscience as a natural principle
self-love and benevolence as compatible principles
influenced 20th-century analytic moral philosophy
Adam Smith
David Hume
Henry Sidgwick
Thomas Reid
knownFor critique of deism
defense of revealed religion
influence on later British moralists
theory of conscience as a governing principle in human nature
languageOfWorkOrName English
notableWork Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel
The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature
occupation bishop
clergyman
philosopher
theologian
philosophicalSchool British moral philosophy
anti-utilitarian ethics
positionHeld Bishop of Bristol
Bishop of Durham
Clerk of the Closet to the King
linked to: Clerk of the Closet

Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral
religion Anglicanism
servedAs preacher at the Rolls Chapel, London
theologicalTradition Anglican theology

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