Joseph Butler

Also known as A Gentleman in Gloucestershire

English bishop and philosopher (1692–1752)

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Works: 44

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Analogy of Religion
Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel ...
Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed
Phonologically Constrained Variability in L1 and L2 Production and Perception : Special Topic Issue
Human Nature and Other Sermons

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Austria
Active from: 1732-03-31
Active to: 1809-05-31

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Joseph Butler (18 May 1692 O.S. – 16 June 1752 O.S.) 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. The many philosophers and religious thinkers Butler influenced included David Hume, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, Henry Sidgwick, John Henry Newman, and C. D. Broad, and is widely seen as "one of the pre-eminent English moralists." He played a major, if underestimated role in developing 18th-century economic discourse, influencing political economist Josiah Tucker.