Philosopher
Walter Charleton
Overview
Walter Charleton (2 February 1619 – 24 April 1707) was a natural philosopher and English writer.
According to Jon Parkin, he was "the main conduit for the transmission of Epicurean ideas to England".
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed Walter Charleton
Ideas Walter Charleton discusses
- Atheism
- John Wilkins
- English people
- Pierre Gassendi
- Oxford
- Thomas Hobbes
- Theology
- Jan Baptist van Helmont
- Natural philosophy
- Epicureanism
- Atomism
- John Dryden
Place in the tradition
Part of Epicureanism.