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Joseph Butler

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There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.


— Joseph Butler


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Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?


— Joseph Butler


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Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.


— Joseph Butler


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Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.


— Joseph Butler


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The son of a Presbyterian linen-draper he was destined for the ministry of that church and—along with future archbishop Thomas Secker—entered Samuel Jones's dissenting academy at Gloucester (later Tewkesbury) for that purpose.

S. He is known among other things for his critique of Thomas Hobbes's egoism and John Locke's theory of personal identity.  – 16 June 1752) was an English bishop theologian apologist and philosopher.

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