Memoirs of Richard Cumberland
Author : Richard Cumberland
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 1807
Category : Authors, English
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Author : Richard Cumberland
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 1807
Category : Authors, English
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Author : Linda Kirk
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 022790656X
No study in the history of seventeenth century thought is completed without some mention of Richard Cumberland, one of the many writers who aimed to refute Hobbes. Cumberland remains on of the few important writers of his century on whom, until now, nothing of substance has been written In the past Cumberland has been somewhat unfairly overshadowed by his fellow anti-Hobbists. His one important work, De Legibus Naturae, first appeared in Latin in 1672 and has never been satisfactorily translated into English. That he published so little in such a prolific age was unusual, but his influence through his work continued to be felt well into the nineteenth century. It is now clear that he went further than both Grotius and Pufendorf in devising a system which prefigured classical utilitarianism, propounding a cosmology based upon the reconciliation of charity and self-interest. In this study, Cumberland is placed for the first time, in his intellectual and historical setting. The author describes Cumberland's life, his work as Bishop of Peterborough, his book and above all his position in the development of natural law theory.
Author : William Mudford
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Page : 662 pages
File Size : 29,83 MB
Release : 1812
Category : Dramatists, English
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Author : Richard Cumberland
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Page : 416 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 1813
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Author : William Mudford
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Page : 350 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 1812
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Author : William Mudford
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Page : 412 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 1812
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Author : Richard Cumberland
Publisher :
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 10,81 MB
Release : 1807
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Author : Richard Cumberland
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 1807
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Author : Louis Israel Newman
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Jews
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Author : Richard Cumberland
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Page : 824 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 1727
Category : Christian ethics
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