Joseph Butler
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).
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Quotes
[edit]- Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.
- Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel, 2nd ed. (London: W. Botham, 1729) Preface, p. xxix. Quoted as epigraph in G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica (1903) title page
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