Joseph Butler
Joseph Butler (18 May 1692 – 16 June 1752) was an English
Anglican bishop,
theologian,
apologist, and
philosopher, born in
Wantage in the English county of
Berkshire (now in
Oxfordshire). 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 the Dean of Gloucester and political economist
Josiah Tucker.
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