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Death. Francis Hutcheson spent time in Dublin, and died while on a visit to that city in 1746. He is buried in the churchyard of Saint Mary's, which is also the final resting place of his cousin William Bruce. Today Saint Mary's is a public park located in what is now Wolfe Tone Street.
Francis Hutcheson died in 1745 after 16 years at Glasgow while on a visit to Ireland, where he is buried.
Francis Hutcheson (born Aug. 8, 1694, Drumalig, County Down, Ire.—died 1746, Glasgow) was a Scots-Irish philosopher and major exponent of the theory of the existence of a moral sense through which man can achieve right action.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hutcheson’s Logicae compendium also appeared after his death. His last efforts were devoted to completing A System of Moral Philosophy, which his son published posthumously in 1755, Hutcheson having died on a visit to Dublin in 1746.
Aug 8, 2019 · The philosopher Francis Hutcheson is widely regarded as one of the early father figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, the blaze of talent and intellect that swept Scotland in the 18th and early 19th Centuries. He was born on August 8th, 1694, and died on the same day 50 years later.
Jan 8, 2014 · Two years after Hutcheson’s death, Montesquieu argued against slavery in The Spirit of the Laws (1748) while Voltaire depicted a maimed slave in his 1759 Candide. In 1760, the Scottish jurist George Wallace argued that slavery was “against nature” in his System of the Principles of the Law of Scotland.
Jun 11, 2018 · Francis Hutcheson [1] (hŭch´əsən), 1694–1746, British philosopher, b. Co. Down, Ireland. He was a professor at the Univ. of Glasgow from 1729 until his death. His reputation rests on four essays published anonymously while he was living in Dublin, prior to his college teaching.
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