Author Description

Joseph Butler (1692 1752) was an English bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher. Butler influenced many philosophers, including David Hume, Thomas Reid, and Adam Smith. He is most famous for his Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel (1726) and Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed (1736). The "Sermons on Human Nature" is commonly studied as an answer to Hobbes' philosophy of ethical egoism. The quality of his sermons comes from the strength of his intellectual arguments and reasoning.