* 1694 – Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher ( d. 1746 )

For Francis Hutcheson beauty is disclosed by an inner mental sense, but is a subjective fact rather than an objective one.

Hume's sentimentalism about morality was shared by his close friend Adam Smith, and Hume and Smith were mutually influenced by the moral reflections of Francis Hutcheson.

The first major philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment was Francis Hutcheson, who held the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow from 1729 to 1746.

The true forerunner of human rights discourse was the concept of natural rights which appeared as part of the medieval Natural law tradition that became prominent during the Enlightenment with such philosophers as John Locke, Francis Hutcheson, and Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, and featured prominently in the political discourse of the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

Natural law theories have, however, exercised a profound influence on the development of English common law, and have featured greatly in the philosophies of Thomas Aquinas, Francisco Suárez, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hobbes, Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, John Locke, Francis Hutcheson, Jean Jacques Burlamaqui, and Emmerich de Vattel.

" The Scottish moral philosopher Francis Hutcheson, as a student at Glasgow, " was attracted most by Cicero, for whom he always professed the greatest admiration.

Francis Hutcheson: His Life, Teaching, and Position in the History of Philosophy Cambridge ; repr.

Hume had studied under Francis Hutcheson and it was he who first introduced a key utilitarian phrase.

* August 8 – Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher ( d. 1746 )

Famous names include the physicist, Lord Kelvin, ' father of economics ' Adam Smith, James Watt, John Logie Baird, Joseph Black, Sir John Boyd Orr, Professor Sam Karunaratne, Francis Hutcheson and Joseph Lister.

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Among the Scottish thinkers and scientists of the period were Francis Hutcheson, Alexander Campbell, David Hume, Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart, Thomas Reid, Robert Burns, Adam Ferguson, John Playfair, Joseph Black and James Hutton.

The first major philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment was Francis Hutcheson, who held the chair of philosophy at the University of Glasgow from 1729 to 1746.

* Francis Hutcheson ( 1694 – 1746 ) philosopher of metaphysics, logic, and ethics

In 1826 he wrote a preface to a translation of Stewart's Moral Philosophy, demonstrating the possibility of a scientific statement of the laws of consciousness ; in 1828 he began a translation of the works of Reid, and in his preface estimated the influence of Scottish criticism upon philosophy, giving a biographical account of the movement from Francis Hutcheson onwards.

Plaque to Francis Hutcheson on the Guildhall, Saintfield

Francis Hutcheson ( 8 August 1694 – 8 August 1746 ) was a philosopher born in Ireland to a family of Scottish Presbyterians who became one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Unlike Smith, Hutcheson was not a system builder ; rather it was his magnetic personality and method of lecturing that so influenced his students and caused the greatest of those to reverentially refer to him as " the never to be forgotten Hutcheson "–– a title that Smith in all his correspondence used to describe only two people, his good friend David Hume and influential mentor Francis Hutcheson.

These included the English anatomist Francis Glisson ( 1597 – 1677 ) and the Italian doctor Marcello Malpighi ( 1628 – 1694 ).

Following the birth of the Catholic James II's only son James Francis Edward Stuart (" The Old Pretender "), the English establishment determined to avoid the possibility of a Catholic dynasty on the English throne by engineering the Glorious Revolution, when the throne was offered to the older of James's two Protestant daughters from his first marriage and her husband, the Stadhouder of Holland, who uniquely reigned as co-monarchs, William III ( 1688 – 1702 ) and Mary II ( 1688 – 1694 ).

* Francis Hutcheson ( philosopher ) ( 1694 – 1746 ), Scottish philosopher

It was first created in 1694 for Francis Newport, 2nd Baron Newport.

* Francis Newport, 2nd Baron Newport ( 1620 – 1708 ) ( created Viscount Newport in 1675 and Earl of Bradford in 1694 )

This man ended up being Lionel Copley who governed Maryland until his death in 1694 and was replaced by Francis Nicholson.

* Francis II, Duke of Modena ( 1662 – 1694 )

* Francis Wollaston ( scientist ) ( 1694 – 1774 )

* Sir Francis Henry Drake, 4th Baronet ( 1694 – 1740 ), son of Sir Francis Drake ; MP for Tavistock ( UK Parliament constituency )

He remarried to Mary Wollaston, daughter of Francis Wollaston ( 1694 – 1774 ), and had a further eight children, of whom only two survived their father, one being the William Heberden the Younger ( 1767 – 1845 ), who followed his father into medicine, and the other Mary ( 1763 – 1832 ) who married the Rev George Leonard Jenyns.

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg was a side line of the Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg family, created by Graf Casimir ( ruled 1694 – 1741 ) for his brother, Ludwig Francis zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg ( 1694 – 1750 ).

* Ludwig Francis ( 1694 – 1750 )

Francis Lodwick ( or Lodowick ) ( 1619 – 1694 ) was a pioneer of a priori languages ( what in the seventeenth century was called a ' philosophical language ').

Francis ' nephew Charles Lodwik ( 1658 – 1724 ), Mayor of New York City in 1694, signed at Defoe's marriage as a witness, and Francis may have introduced Defoe to " Roscommon's Academy ", a group founded by Lord Roscommon in 1683.

Greenberry served in this capacity until he was replaced on 26 July 1694 by Francis Nicholson by a commission from the King dated in February 169 / 4.

* 1923 – Francis Tucker, South African race car driver ( d. 2008 )

* 1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire.

* 1920 – Francis Lynch, American politician ( d. 1993 )

* 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and songwriter ( d. 1843 )

* 1946 – Francis Newton, American golfer ( b. 1874 )

* 1969 – Stacy Francis, American singer and actress ( Ex Girlfriend )

* 1587 – Francis Drake leads a raid in the Bay of Cádiz, sinking at least 23 ships of the Spanish fleet.

* 1777 – Francis I of the Two Sicilies ( d. 1830 )

* 1881 – Francis Ford, American actor ( d. 1953 )

* 1893 – Francis Dvornik, Czech historian ( d. 1975 )

* 1549 – Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima ( Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549 ).

* 1960 – Cold War: in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.

* 1567 – Francis de Sales, Swiss bishop and saint ( d. 1622 )

b., pp. 716 – 726 ( 1844 ); William Francis Ainsworth, Euphrates Expedition, i. 401-418 ( 1888 ).

* 1740 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English merchant banker ( d. 1810 )

* 1950 – Francis Collins, American physician-geneticist

* 1982 – 1990 Sir Francis Graham-Smith

* 1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.

* 1804 – Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.

* 1954 – Trevor Francis, English footballer

* The Shadow Witness and The Doom of Saint Quirec, with Francis Burnand ( 1875 – 76 )

* 1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish " Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid " describing the double helix structure of DNA.

* 1541 – Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.

* 1506 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Roman Catholic missionary, co-founder of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1552 )