Description: A System of Moral Philosophy is the major synthesis of the moral, social, and political thought of Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746). He is one of the most influential figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, and this work is his concerted effort to make his theory of humanity's innate moral sense compatible with and the foundation of natural jurisprudence that encompasses a system of natural rights and duties. To this dual intellectual construction Hutcheson then added a third factor: his version of the republican theory of government. System combines continental European, English, and Scottish intellectual debates into a unique synthesis that became of the greatest importance in the Enlightenment in Ireland, Scotland, and America and in the history of moral and political thought.
