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WILLIAM ARCHER BUTLER (1814-1848)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 888 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:ARCHER See also:BUTLER (1814-1848)  , Irish historian of See also:philosophy, was See also:born at Annerville, near See also:Clonmel in See also:Ireland, probably in 1814 . His See also:father was a See also:Protestant, his See also:mother a See also:Roman See also:Catholic, and he was brought up as a Catholic . As a boy he was imaginative and poetical, and some of his See also:early verses were remarkable . While yet at Clonmel school he became a Protestant . Later he entered Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, where he had a brilliant career . He specially devoted himself to literature and See also:metaphysics, and was noted for the beauty of his See also:style . In 1834 he gained the ethical moderatorship, newly instituted by See also:Provost See also:Lloyd, and continued in See also:residence at college . In 1837 he decided to enter the See also:Church, and in the same See also:year he was elected to the professorship of moral philosophy, specially founded for him through Lloyd's exertions . About the same See also:time he was presented to the prebend of Clondahorky, See also:Donegal, and resided there when not called by his professorial duties to Dublin . In 1842 he was promoted to the rectory of Raymochy . He died on the 5th of See also:July 1848 . His Sermons (2 vols., 1849) were remarkably brilliant and forceful .

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History of See also:Ancient Philosophy, edited by W . Hepworth See also:Thompson (2 vols., 1856; 2nd ed., 1 vol . 1875), take a high See also:place among the few See also:British See also:works on the history of philosophy . The See also:introductory lectures, and those on the early See also:Greek thinkers, though they See also:evidence wide See also:reading, do not show the See also:complete mastery that is found in See also:Schwegler or See also:Zeller; but the lectures on See also:Plato are of considerable value . Among his other writings were papers in the Dublin University See also:Magazine (1834–1837); and " Letters on Development " (in the Irish Ecclesiastical See also:Journal, 1845), a reply to See also:Newman's famous See also:Essay on the Development of See also:Christian See also:Doctrine . See Memoir of W . A . See also:Butler, prefixed by Rev . J . See also:Woodward to first See also:series of Sermons .

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