William Wollaston
Philosopher, Deceased Person
1659 – 1724
Who was William Wollaston?
William Wollaston was school teacher, a Church of England priest, a scholar of Latin, Greek and Hebrew, a theologian, and an major Enlightenment era English philosopher. He is remembered today for one book, which he completed only two years before his death: The Religion of Nature Delineated. Yet despite his cloistered life and his single book, due to his influence on eighteenth-century philosophy and his promotion of a Natural Religion, he may be considered one of the great British Enlightenment philosophers, along with Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. His work contributed to the development of two important intellectual schools: British Deism, and "the pursuit of happiness" moral philosophy of American Practical Idealism. It appears notably in the Declaration of Independence.
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- Born
- Mar 26, 1659
Coton Clanford - Also known as
- William Wollastson
- Profession
- Education
- Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
- Died
- Oct 29, 1724
London
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on July 23, 2013
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