Philosopher
Richard Cumberland (philosopher)
Overview
Richard Cumberland (15 July 1631 (or 1632) – 9 October 1718) was an English philosopher, and Bishop of Peterborough from 1691. In 1672, he published his major work, De legibus naturae (On natural laws), propounding utilitarianism and opposing the egoistic ethics of Thomas Hobbes.
Cumberland was a member of the Latitudinarian movement, along with his friend Hezekiah Burton of Magdalene College, Cambridge and closely allied with the Cambridge Platonists, a group of ecclesiastical philosophers centred on Cambridge University in the mid 17th century.
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Philosophers who discussed Richard Cumberland (philosopher)
Ideas Richard Cumberland (philosopher) discusses
- Eusebius
- Innatism
- Philosophy
- John Stuart Mill
- Bachelor of Arts
- David Hartley (philosopher)
- Samuel von Pufendorf
- Richard Bentley
- Nominalism
- New Testament
- Natural law
- Scientific law
- Theory of forms
- Revelation
- Samuel Pepys
- State of nature
- Thomas Hobbes
- Utilitarianism
- University of Oxford
- Instrumental and value rationality
- Epicureanism
- Coptic language
- Virtue
- Hugo Grotius
Place in the tradition
Part of British philosophy.
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