Religion of Nature Delineated
Name/Title
Religion of Nature DelineatedEntry/Object ID
R02.11 W65rDescription
1724 re-print of title. Subject: religious philosophy. Leatherbound.Context
From the Wikipedia entry: The Religion of Nature Delineated is a book by Anglican cleric William Wollaston[1] that describes a system of ethics that can be discerned without recourse to revealed religion. It was first published in 1722, two years before Wollaston's death. Due to its influence on eighteenth-century philosophy and his promotion of a natural religion, the book claims for Wollaston a ranking as one of the great British Enlightenment philosophers, along with John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume. It contributed to the development of two important intellectual schools: British Deism, and the pursuit of happiness moral philosophy of American Practical Idealism which appears in the United States Declaration of Independence....Wollaston claimed originality for his theory that the moral evil is the practical denial of a true proposition and moral good the affirmation of it,[1] writing that this attempt to use mathematics to create a rationalist ethics was "something never met with anywhere". Wollaston "held that religious truths were plain as Euclid, clear to all who contemplated Creation."[2] Isaac Newton had induced natural laws from a mathematical model of the physical world; similarly, Wollaston was attempting to induce moral laws by a mathematical model of the moral world. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Religion_of_Nature_DelineatedCollection
Special Collections, Gillett, Charles E.Cataloged By
Adam KendallCategory
Religions of the World: Non-Christian: Other