Samuel Clarke (1675 to 1729) was an English philosopher and Anglican priest, born in Norwich, who became the most influential British metaphysician and philosophical theologian in the generation between Locke and Berkeley. A convinced Newtonian, he defended natural religion against the claim that nature is a self-sufficient system and defended revealed religion against deism, and he opposed Hobbes, Spinoza and Toland. His Boyle Lectures of 1704 and 1705 set out an a priori argument for the existence and attributes of God and a rationalist ethics of unalterable moral obligations. He also answered Leibniz in a celebrated correspondence on space, time and God, and rose from chaplain to Queen Anne to rector of St. James, Westminster.
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Samuel Clarke was born on October 11, 1675, in Norwich, England
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was an English philosopher and Anglican priest
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Samuel Clarke (1675-1729)
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He took his B.A. degree at Cambridge in 1695
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Queen Anne, who made him one of her chaplains in 1706
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the most influential British metaphysician and philosophical theologian in the generation between Locke and Berkeley
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Samuel Clarke was born on October 11, 1675, in Norwich, England
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the most influential British metaphysician and philosophical theologian in the generation between Locke and Berkeley
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Clarke defended natural religion against the view that nature constitutes a self-sufficient system
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only Shaftesbury rivals him in ethics
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Clarke adopted some form of rationalism in metaphysics, ethics, and theology
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the most influential British metaphysician and philosophical theologian in the generation between Locke and Berkeley
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