The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed (1817)

The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed to the Constitution snd Course of Nature to which are added, Two Brief Dissertations,1., On Personal Identity, 2., On the Nature of Virtue.

Printed by Brett Smith, Mary-Street, Dublin, 1817, hardcover, half leather binding, marbled boards, gilt lettering & designs to spine, 414 pages, 11.5 cms x 17.6 cms x 2.9 cms,  Cracking to front hinge, binding remains firm, overall condition: very good.

Joseph Butler (1692 1752) was an Anglican bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher. 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 the Dean of Gloucester and political economist Josiah Tucker.