 Hutcheson’s most detailed statement of his sentimentalism and substantive moral and aesthetic theory is to be found in his 1725 (and subsequently revised) work, An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. Indeed, at least in early editions of the Inquiry, Hutcheson considered this essay an attempt to defend the (broadly considered) sentimentalist doctrines of Lord Shaftesbury, as expressed in the Characteristiks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711). Indeed, the subtitle of the book’s first edition runs as follows: 