An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

In An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725), Hutcheson explained: “The origin of our perceptions of beauty and harmony is justly called a ‘sense’ because it involves no intellectual element, no reflection on principles and causes.”

…theory was propounded in his Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725), in An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations upon the Moral Sense (1728), and in the posthumous System of Moral Philosophy, 2 vol. (1755). In his…