John Gay
Deceased Person
1699 – 1745
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Who was John Gay?
John Gay, a cousin of the poet John Gay, was an English philosopher, biblical scholar and Church of England clergyman. The greatest happiness principle, Gay supposed, represented a middle ground between the egoism of Hobbes and Hutcheson's moral sense theory.
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