Hutcheson's moral sense and the problem of innateness.

Discusses the concept of moral sense and the problem of innateness in philosopher Francis Hutcheson's synthesis of positions laid out by John Locke and Anthony Ashley Cooper, the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury. Different definitions of innateness; Challenge posed by the incompatibility of Locke and Cooper's works; Critics' contradictory assessments of Hutcheson's outlook on innateness.