Books/Writings
  • The Analogy of Religion
    (Available Used)
Joseph Butler
1692 – 1752
English

Philosopher. A churchman who marshaled logical arguments in favor of traditional Christianity, he thought that our sense of right and wrong was both innate and rational.

Contemporaries
1640–1716William Wycherley
1727–1759James Wolfe
1727–1797John Wilkes
1714–1770George Whitefield
1703–1791John Wesley
1707–1788Charles Wesley
1717–1797Horace Walpole
1664–1726Sir John Vanbrugh
1732–1822William Tuke
1736–1812John Tooke
1634–1716Robert South
1750–1814Joanna Southcott
1651–1716John Somers
1671–1713Anthony Shaftesbury
1627–1705John Ray
1735–1811Robert Raikes
1733–1804Joseph Priestley
1688–1744Alexander Pope
1633–1703Samuel Pepys
1644–1718William Penn
1743–1805William Paley
1737–1809Thomas Paine
1649–1705Titus Oates
1642–1727Isaac Newton
1745–1833Hannah More
1639–1709William Mompesson
?–1734Lady Abigail Masharn
1632–1704John Locke
1645–1701William Kidd
1704–1764John Kay
1746–1794Sir William Jones
1709–1784Samuel Johnson
1749–1823Edward Jenner
fl. c. 1726–c. 1790John Howard
1705–1757David Hartley
1720–1778James Hargreaves
1716–1771Thomas Gray
1751–1793Lord George Gordon
1737–1794Edward Gibbon
1717–1779David Garrick
1749–1806Charles Fox
fl. c. 1707–c. 1754Henry Fielding
1620–1706John Evelyn
1743–1823Edmund Cartwright
1750–1822John Debrett
1631–1718Richard Cumberland
1728–1779James Cook
1675–1729Samuel Clarke
1680–1740Ephraim Chambers
1740–1824John Cartwright
1710–1773Alban Butler
1715–1783Lancelot Brown
1695–1755Edward Braddock
1693–1762James Bradley
1728–1809Matthew Boulton
1678–1751Henry Bolingbroke
1723–1780Sir William Blackstone
1748–1832Jeremy Bentham
1702–1761Thomas Bayes
1743–1820Sir Joseph Banks
1626–1697John Aubrey
1732–1792Sir Richard Arkwright
1672–1719Joseph Addison