Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Mythology task # 3



Celtic Heritage-Irish
Philosophers-
Francis Hutcheson
August 8, 1694-August 8, 1746
Wrote many well known essays including the Inquiry concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony and Design, the Inquiry concerning Moral Good and Evil, the Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections and Illustrations upon the Moral Sense.
Hutcheson believed that man had a variety of senses, six in all, and they are; consciousness, the sense of beauty, a public sense, the moral sense, a sense of honor, and a sense of the ridiculous.
William Thompson
1775-1833
Thompson was a Irish political and philosophical writer that influenced the Trade Union as well as the Karl Marx movement.
He supported the French Revolution and was a democrat.


Artists-
Francis Danby
1793-1861
"disappointed love"




Frederic William Burton
1816-1900

"Meeting on the Turret Stairs"

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