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Samuel Clarke (1675 – 1729) was the most influential British metaphysician and philosophical theologian in the generation between Locke and Berkeley, and only Shaftesbury rivals him in ethics. In all three areas he was critical of Hobbes, Spinoza, and Toland. Clarke defended natural religion against the view that nature constitutes a self-sufficient system, and he defended revealed…
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