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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 ARCHER BUTLER (1814-1848)  , Irish historian of philosophy, was born at Annerville, near
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Clonmel in Ireland, probably in 1814 . His
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father was a
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Protestant, his
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mother a
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Roman Catholic, and he was brought up as a Catholic . As a boy he was imaginative and poetical, and some of his early verses were remarkable . While yet at Clonmel school he became a Protestant . Later he entered Trinity College,
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Dublin, where he had a brilliant career . He specially devoted himself to literature and metaphysics, and was noted for the beauty of his style . In 1834 he gained the ethical moderatorship, newly instituted by Provost Lloyd, and continued in residence at college . In 1837 he decided to enter the Church, and in the same
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year he was elected to the professorship of moral philosophy, specially founded for him through Lloyd's exertions . About the same time he was presented to the prebend of Clondahorky,
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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
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July 1848 . His Sermons (2 vols., 1849) were remarkably brilliant and forceful .

The Lectures on the

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

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