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See also:WOLLASTON, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1659--1724) , See also:English philosophical writer, was See also:born at Coton-Clanford in See also:Staffordshire, on the 26th of See also:March 16 J9. On leaving See also:Sidney See also:Sussex See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1681, he became an ,assistant See also:master at the See also:Birmingham See also:grammar-school, and took See also:holy orders. In 1688 an See also:uncle See also:left him a See also:fortune. He then moved to See also:London, married a See also:lady of See also:wealth, and devoted himself to learning and See also:philosophy. He embodied his views in the one See also:book by which he is remembered, The See also:Religion of Nature Delineated (1st ed. 1722; 2nd ed. 1724). He died in See also:October 1724.
Wollaston's Religion of Nature, which falls between See also:- CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
Clarke's Discourse of the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion and See also:- BUTLER
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
Butler's Sermons, was one of the popular philosophical books of its See also:day. To the 8th edition (1750) was added a See also:life of the author. The book was designed to be an See also:answer to two questions: Is there such a thing as natural religion? and, If there is, what is it? Wollaston starts with the See also:assumption that religion and morality are identical, and labours to show that religion is " the pursuit of happiness by the practice of truth and See also:reason." He claims originality for his theory that the moral evil is the See also:practical denial of a true proposition and moral See also:good the See also:affirmation of it (see See also:ETHICS). Wollaston also published anonymously a small book, On the See also:Design of the Book of See also:Ecclesiastes, or the Unreasonableness of Men's Restless Contention for the See also:Present Enjoyments, represented in an English Poem (London, 1691).
See See also:John Clarke, Examination of the Notion of Moral Good and Evil advanced in a See also:late book entitled The Religion of Nature Delineated (London, 1725) ; Drechsler, Ober Wollaston's Moral-Philosophie (See also:Erlangen, 18o2); See also:Sir See also:Leslie See also:Stephen's See also:History of English Thought in the Eighteenth See also:Century (London, 1876), ch. iii. and ch. ix.; H. See also:Sidgwick's History of Ethics (1902), pp. 198 sq.
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