SNIPPET: Francis HUTCHESON (1694-1746), was a Presbyterian moral philosopher and the son and grandson of Irish Presbyterian ministers. He studied for the ministry in Glasgow but chose to run a dissenting academy in Dublin for ten years, during which he published his "Inquiry into Beauty and Virtue" (1725), and "Essays on the Passions with Illustrations on the Moral Sense" (1728). Appointed to the chair of moral philosophy in Glasgow in 1730, his teaching earned him the title of Father of the Scottish Enlightenment. His views of God and man were more optimistic than those of the Westminster Confession. His moral teachings, which included the opinion that victims of unjust regimes had the right to rebel, contributed to the ideology of revolution in Ireland and colonial America.