biography
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Cumberland, Richard
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| lived:
| (1631–1718)
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| biography:
| Philosopher and theologian, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and was successively rector of Brampton, Northamptonshire (1658), vicar of All Saints, Stamford (1667), and Bishop of Peterborough (1691). He is associated with the Cambridge Platonists. His De legibus naturae (1672, On the Laws of Nature) was written as a direct response to Hobbes, and in some respects anticipated utilitarianism in espousing a principle of universal benevolence. |
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