Hutcheson’s book was in Jefferson’s library and Franklin had a copy too from what I’ve heard. It is a supposed link to how the pursuit of happiness ended up in the Declaration of Independence. John Locke also discussed pursuit of happiness in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding from what I was able to find.
I have yet to read either Hutcheson’s book (other than what has been read over the radio as I mentioned in a previous post) or Locke’s essay/book on this topic. eventually…
Ethics is the study and logic of morality.
Ahhhh, thanks! So this tunes with my previous inclination in this thread that morality is more private than ethics unless of course the ethics line up with morality, which when that happens the ethics and morals will match. Reason good ethics and a person will be reasoning what is morally good. I also see what you meant by the “science” of it too. You were using “science” in the Aristotle sense, which is proper even for today, and something I think I’ve become a little bit more aware of today during some of my readings.
Thanks again for getting back to this question.
Yeah, I read it before the others.
Heck, I was lucky though - I didn’t even know about Libertarianism / Ron Paul / Austrian Economics when I did.