When1: 1726
When2: 1736
Who: Joseph Butler [Butler, Joseph]
What: philosopher
Where: Durham, England
works\ Fifteen Sermons [1726]; Analogy of Religion [1736]
Detail: He lived 1692 to 1752. People have moral sense and can reason, and both cause conscience. Conscience balances self-love and benevolence and so controls passions towards other objects. However, conscience can be wrong.
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