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Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)

Index Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)

Francis Hutcheson (8 August 1694 – 8 August 1746) was an Irish philosopher born in Ulster to a family of Scottish Presbyterians who became known as one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment. [1]

89 relations: Academy and College of Philadelphia, Adam Smith, Age of Enlightenment, Alexander Bain, Allan Ramsay (artist), Alma mater, Alumnus, An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Anti-Burgher, Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland), Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland), Atlas Network, Bernard Mandeville, Bishop of Salisbury, Cato Institute, Church of Ireland, Cicero, County Down, David Hume, De finibus bonorum et malorum, Doctor (title), Dublin, Dugald Stewart, Econ Journal Watch, Empiricism, Ethics, Francis Alison, Francis Hutcheson (songwriter), Friedrich Ueberweg, Garry Wills, Gershom Carmichael, Gilbert Burnet, Habit, Harvard College, Hugh Boulter, James Mackintosh, James Martineau, James McCosh, Jeremy Bentham, John Adams, John Locke, John Simson, John Veitch (poet), John Witherspoon, Joseph Butler, Joseph Priestley, Killyleagh, Kingdom of Ireland, Leslie Stephen, ..., List of abolitionist forerunners, Logic, Logical truth, Metaphysics, Mises Institute, Murray Rothbard, Natural and legal rights, Nicolas Malebranche, Noah Porter, Norman Fiering, Northern Ireland, Presbyterianism, Princeton University, Professor of Moral Philosophy (Glasgow), Richard Price, Ronald Hamowy, SAGE Publications, Saintfield, Scottish Enlightenment, Self-love, The Most Reverend, The Reverend, The Right Honourable, The Right Reverend, The Wealth of Nations, Theology, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Reid, Ulster, Ulster Scots people, United States Declaration of Independence, University of Glasgow, Victor Cousin, William and Mary Quarterly, William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock, William King (bishop), William Leechman, William Paley, William Whewell. Expand index (39 more) »

Academy and College of Philadelphia

The Academy and College of Philadelphia was a secondary school and later university located in Philadelphia.

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Adam Smith

Adam Smith (16 June 1723 NS (5 June 1723 OS) – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist, philosopher and author as well as a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment era.

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Age of Enlightenment

The Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason; in lit in Aufklärung, "Enlightenment", in L’Illuminismo, “Enlightenment” and in Spanish: La Ilustración, "Enlightenment") was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, "The Century of Philosophy".

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Alexander Bain

Alexander Bain (11 June 1818 – 18 September 1903) was a Scottish philosopher and educationalist in the British school of empiricism and a prominent and innovative figure in the fields of psychology, linguistics, logic, moral philosophy and education reform.

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Allan Ramsay (artist)

Allan Ramsay (13 October 171310 August 1784) was a prominent Scottish portrait-painter.

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Alma mater

Alma mater (Latin: "nourishing/kind", "mother"; pl.) is an allegorical Latin phrase for a university or college.

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Alumnus

An alumnus ((masculine), an alumna ((feminine), or an alumnum ((gender-neutral) of a college, university, or other school is a former student. The word is Latin and simply means student. The plural is alumni for men and mixed groups and alumnae for women. The term is often mistakenly thought of as synonymous with "graduate," but they are not synonyms; one can be an alumnus without graduating. (Burt Reynolds, alumnus but not graduate of Florida State, is an example.) An alumnus can also be a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate.

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An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought is two-volume non-fiction work written by Murray N. Rothbard.

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury Bt (26 February 1671 – 16 February 1713) was an English politician, philosopher and writer.

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Anti-Burgher

The Anti-Burghers were opponents of the Burgher Oath on theological grounds.

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Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland)

The Anglican Archbishop of Armagh is the ecclesiastical head of the Church of Ireland, bearing the title Primate of All Ireland, the metropolitan of the Province of Armagh and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Armagh.

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Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland)

The Archbishop of Dublin is a senior bishop in the Church of Ireland, second only to the Archbishop of Armagh.

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Atlas Network

The Atlas Network, formerly known as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, is a nonprofit organization based in the United States.

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Bernard Mandeville

Bernard Mandeville, or Bernard de Mandeville (15 November 1670 – 21 January 1733), was an Anglo-Dutch philosopher, political economist and satirist.

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Bishop of Salisbury

The Bishop of Salisbury is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Salisbury in the Province of Canterbury.

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Cato Institute

The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded as the Charles Koch Foundation in 1974 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries.

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Church of Ireland

The Church of Ireland (Eaglais na hÉireann; Ulster-Scots: Kirk o Airlann) is a Christian church in Ireland and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion.

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Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, who served as consul in the year 63 BC.

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County Down

County Down is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland in the northeast of the island of Ireland.

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David Hume

David Hume (born David Home; 7 May 1711 NS (26 April 1711 OS) – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.

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De finibus bonorum et malorum

De finibus bonorum et malorum ("On the ends of good and evil") is a philosophical work by the Roman orator, politician and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero.

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Doctor (title)

Doctor is an academic title that originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.

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Dugald Stewart

Dugald Stewart (22 November 175311 June 1828) was a Scottish philosopher and mathematician.

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Econ Journal Watch

Econ Journal Watch is a triannual peer-reviewed electronic journal established in 2004.

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Empiricism

In philosophy, empiricism is a theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience.

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Ethics

Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.

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Francis Alison

Francis Alison (1705–1779) was a leading minister in the Synod of Philadelphia during The Old Side-New Side Controversy.

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Francis Hutcheson (songwriter)

Francis Hutcheson (1721–1784) was an Irish songwriter, physician and lecturer in chemistry.

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Friedrich Ueberweg

Friedrich Ueberweg (22 January 1826 – 9 June 1871), was a German philosopher and historian of philosophy.

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Garry Wills

Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934) is an American author, journalist, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church.

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Gershom Carmichael

Gershom Carmichael (1672–1729) was a Scottish philosopher.

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Gilbert Burnet

Gilbert Burnet (18 September 1643 – 17 March 1715) was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury.

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Habit

A habit (or wont) is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously.

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Harvard College

Harvard College is the undergraduate liberal arts college of Harvard University.

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Hugh Boulter

Hugh Boulter (4 January 1672 – 27 September 1742) was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh, the Primate of All Ireland, from 1724 until his death.

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James Mackintosh

Sir James Mackintosh FRS FRSE (24 October 1765 – 30 May 1832) was a Scottish jurist, Whig politician and historian.

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James Martineau

James Martineau (21 April 1805 – 11 January 1900) was an English religious philosopher influential in the history of Unitarianism.

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James McCosh

James McCosh (April 1, 1811 – November 16, 1894) was a prominent philosopher of the Scottish School of Common Sense.

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Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham (15 February 1748 – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.

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John Adams

John Adams (October 30 [O.S. October 19] 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the first Vice President (1789–1797) and second President of the United States (1797–1801).

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John Locke

John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".

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John Simson

John Simson (1668?–1740) was a Scottish New Licht theologian, involved in a long investigation of alleged heresy.

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John Veitch (poet)

Prof John Veitch (October 24, 1829 – September 3, 1894), Scottish poet, philosopher, and historian, son of a Peninsular War veteran, was born at Peebles, and educated at Edinburgh University.

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John Witherspoon

John Witherspoon (February 5, 1722 – November 15, 1794) was a Scottish-American Presbyterian minister and a Founding Father of the United States.

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Joseph Butler

Joseph Butler (18 May 1692 – 16 June 1752) was an English bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher.

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Joseph Priestley

Joseph Priestley FRS (– 6 February 1804) was an 18th-century English Separatist theologian, natural philosopher, chemist, innovative grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist who published over 150 works.

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Killyleagh

Killyleagh is a village and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Kingdom of Ireland

The Kingdom of Ireland (Classical Irish: Ríoghacht Éireann; Modern Irish: Ríocht Éireann) was a nominal state ruled by the King or Queen of England and later the King or Queen of Great Britain that existed in Ireland from 1542 until 1800.

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Leslie Stephen

Sir Leslie Stephen (28 November 1832 – 22 February 1904) was an English author, critic, historian, biographer, and mountaineer, and father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.

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List of abolitionist forerunners

Thomas Clarkson (1760 – 1846), the pioneering abolitionist, prepared a "map" of the "streams" of "forerunners and coadjutors" of the abolitionist movement, which he published in his work, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament published in 1808.

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Logic

Logic (from the logikḗ), originally meaning "the word" or "what is spoken", but coming to mean "thought" or "reason", is a subject concerned with the most general laws of truth, and is now generally held to consist of the systematic study of the form of valid inference.

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Logical truth

Logical truth is one of the most fundamental concepts in logic, and there are different theories on its nature.

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Metaphysics

Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of being, existence, and reality.

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Mises Institute

The Mises Institute, short name for Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics, is a tax-exempt educative organization located in Auburn, Alabama, United States.

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Murray Rothbard

Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American heterodox economist of the Austrian School, a historian and a political theorist whose writings and personal influence played a seminal role in the development of modern right-libertarianism.

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Natural and legal rights

Natural and legal rights are two types of rights.

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Nicolas Malebranche

Nicolas Malebranche, Oratory of Jesus (6 August 1638 – 13 October 1715), was a French Oratorian priest and rationalist philosopher.

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Noah Porter

Noah Thomas Porter III (December 14, 1811 – March 4, 1892)Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, Yale University, 1891-2, New Haven, pp.

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Norman Fiering

Norman Fiering (born 1935 New York City) is an American historian, and Director and Librarian, Emeritus, of the John Carter Brown Library.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.

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Presbyterianism

Presbyterianism is a part of the reformed tradition within Protestantism which traces its origins to Britain, particularly Scotland, and Ireland.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Professor of Moral Philosophy (Glasgow)

The Chair of Moral Philosophy is a professorship at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, which was established in 1727.

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Richard Price

Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a British moral philosopher, nonconformist preacher and mathematician.

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Ronald Hamowy

Ronald Hamowy (April 17, 1937 – September 8, 2012) was a Canadian academic, known primarily for his contributions to political and social thought.

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SAGE Publications

SAGE Publishing is an independent publishing company founded in 1965 in New York by Sara Miller McCune and now based in California.

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Saintfield

Saintfield is a village and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Scottish Enlightenment

The Scottish Enlightenment (Scots Enlichtenment, Soillseachadh na h-Alba) was the period in 18th and early 19th century Scotland characterised by an outpouring of intellectual and scientific accomplishments.

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Self-love

Self-love has often been seen as a moral flaw, akin to vanity and selfishness.

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The Most Reverend

The Most Reverend is a style applied to certain religious figures, primarily within the historic denominations of Christianity, but occasionally in some more modern traditions also.

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The Reverend

The Reverend is an honorific style most often placed before the names of Christian clergy and ministers.

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The Right Honourable

The Right Honourable (The Rt Hon. or Rt Hon.) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and to certain collective bodies in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, India, some other Commonwealth realms, the Anglophone Caribbean, Mauritius, and occasionally elsewhere.

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The Right Reverend

The Right Reverend (abbreviations: The Rt Revd; The Rt Rev'd; The Rt Rev.) is a style applied to certain religious figures.

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The Wealth of Nations

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith.

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Theology

Theology is the critical study of the nature of the divine.

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Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), in some older texts Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy.

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Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid DD FRSE (26 April 1710 – 7 October 1796) was a religiously-trained British philosopher, a contemporary of David Hume as well as "Hume's earliest and fiercest critic".

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Ulster

Ulster (Ulaidh or Cúige Uladh, Ulster Scots: Ulstèr or Ulster) is a province in the north of the island of Ireland.

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Ulster Scots people

The Ulster Scots (Ulster-Scots: Ulstèr-Scotch), also called Ulster-Scots people (Ulstèr-Scotch fowk) or, outside the British Isles, Scots-Irish (Scotch-Airisch), are an ethnic group in Ireland, found mostly in the Ulster region and to a lesser extent in the rest of Ireland.

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United States Declaration of Independence

The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (now known as Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776.

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University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow (Oilthigh Ghlaschu; Universitas Glasguensis; abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals) is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities.

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Victor Cousin

Victor Cousin (28 November 179214 January 1867) was a French philosopher.

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William and Mary Quarterly

The William and Mary Quarterly is a quarterly history journal published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.

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William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock

William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock (died 1717) was a Scottish nobleman.

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William King (bishop)

William King, D.D. (1650–1729) was an Anglican divine in the Church of Ireland, who was Archbishop of Dublin from 1703 to 1729.

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William Leechman

William Leechman (1706–1785) was a Scottish minister, theologian and academic.

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William Paley

William Paley (July 1743 – 25 May 1805) was an English clergyman, Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian.

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William Whewell

William Whewell (24 May 1794 – 6 March 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science.

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