Joseph Butler
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English bishop and philosopher (1692–1752)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 44
Top works
- 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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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Austria
- Active from
- 1732-03-31
- Active to
- 1809-05-31
Discography
- Paukenmesse1986
- Harpsichord Concerto in D Major / Violin–Harpsichord Concerto / “Hornsignal” Symphony1988
- String Quartets - Volume 1 Op.20 No.2, Op.50 No.1, Op.76 No.21988
- Symphony No. 88 / Symphony No. 100, "Military"1988
- The "Clock" Symphony - The "Surprise" Symphony1988
- The Philosopher/ Lamentatione / The Imperial1990
- Symphonies No. 48, No. 59, No. 921991
- Symphony no. 90 in C major / Symphony no. 91 in E-flat major / Symphony no. 92 in G major (Oxford)1991
- Sinfonien - Symphonies 88, 89, 92 'Oxford'1992
- Mass in B‐flat major Hob. XXII:12 “Theresienmesse”; Mass in G major Hob XXII:6 “Sancti Nicolai”1993
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 105
- Total plays
- 220
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
· 2016 · cited 40,244x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,896x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,494x
- Naturalistic inquiry
· 1985 · cited 34,765x
- When to use and how to report the results of PLS-SEM
· 2019 · cited 21,483x
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Quotes
- “Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.”
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Key facts
- Diocese
- Durham
- In office
- 1750–1752
- Predecessor
- Edward Chandler
- Successor
- Richard Trevor
- Other posts
- Bishop of Bristol (1738–1750), Dean of St Paul's (1740–1750)
- Ordination
- 26 October 1718 (deacon) , 21 December 1718 (priest), by William Talbot
- Consecration
- 3 December 1738
- Born
- ( 1692-05-18 ) 18 May 1692, Wantage , Berkshire , England
- Died
- 16 June 1752 (1752-06-16) (aged 60), Bath , Somerset , Great Britain
- Buried
- 20 June 1752 (O.S.) Bristol Cathedral .
- Denomination
- Presbyterian , Anglican (after 1714)
- Residence
- Rosewell House , Kingsmead Square, Bath (at death)
- Parents
- Thomas Butler
- Profession
- Theologian , apologist , philosopher
- Feast day
- 16 June (commemoration)
- Education
- Tewkesbury Academy , Oriel College, Oxford
- Era
- 18th-century philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Joseph Butler” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.