Type: Notes
Raynor, David R. ‘Hutchesons Defence against the Charge of Plagiarism’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 2 (1987), pp 177-181.
After the publishing of An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue in 1725, author Francis Hutcheson was accused of plagiarizing the work from Jean-Pierre de Crousazs Traité du beau. This essay analyses Hutchesons letter of defence on the charge.