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Richard Cumberland

(Cumberland, Richard, 1631-1718)

Richard Cumberland (15 July 1631 (or 1632) – 9 October 1718) was an English philosopher, and Bishop of Peterborough from 1691. In 1672, he published his major work, De legibus naturae (On natural laws), propounding utilitarianism and opposing the egoistic ethics of Thomas Hobbes. (From Wikipedia)

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Richard Cumberland als begründer der englischen ethik ... (G. Fock, 1894), by Frank E. Spaulding (page images at HathiTrust)
A critical examination of the writings of Richard Cumberland ... also memoirs of his life. And an appendix, containing twenty-six of his original letters, relating to a transaction not mentioned in his memoirs ... (Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1812), by William Mudford (page images at HathiTrust)

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Cumberland, Richard, 1631-1718: Sanchoniatho's Phoenician History: Translated from the First Book of Eusebius De Praeparatione Evangelica; With a Continuation of Sanchoniatho's History by Eratosthenes Cyrenaeus's Canon, which Dicaearchus Connects With the First Olympiad (London: Printed by W. B. for R. Wilkin, 1720), contrib. by Sanchuniathon, Squier Payne, Eratosthenes, and Eusebius of Caesarea (multiple formats at archive.org)

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Cumberland, Richard, 1631-1718: A brief disquisition of the law of nature : according to the principles and method laid down in the Reverend Dr. Cumberland's (now Lord Bishop of Peterborough's) Latin treatise on that subject : as also his confutations of Mr. Hobb's principles put into another method : with the Right Reverend author's approbation. (Printed, and are to be sold by R. Baldwin, 1692), also by James Tyrrell and Thomas Hobbes (page images at HathiTrust)
Cumberland, Richard, 1631-1718: A brief disquisition of the law of nature according to the principles and method laid down in the Reverend Dr. Cumberland's (now Lord Bishop of Peterboroughs) Latin treatise on that subject : as also his confutations of Mr. Hobb's principles put into another method : with the Right Reverend author's approbation. (London : Printed, and are to be sold by Richard Baldwin ..., 1692), also by James Tyrrell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Cumberland, Richard, 1631-1718: De legibus naturae, disquisitio philosophica, in qua earum forma, summa capita, ordo, promulgatio, & obligatio e rerum natura investigantur; quinetiam elementa philosophiae Hobbianae cum moralis tum civilis, considerantur & refutantur (typis E. Flesher, prostat vero apud N. Hooke, 1672) (page images at HathiTrust)
Cumberland, Richard, 1631-1718: De legibus naturae, disquisitio philosophica, in qua earum forma, summa capita, ordo, promulgatio, & obligatio e rerum natura investigantur; quin etiam elementa philosophiae Hobbianae, cum moralis tum civilis, considerantur & refutantur. (Prostat apud S. Ottonem & J. Wiedemeyerum, 1694) (page images at HathiTrust)
Cumberland, Richard, 1631-1718: De praeparatione evangelica. (Printed by W.B. for R. Wilkin at the King's Head in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1720), also by Sanchuniathon, Eusebius of Caesarea, Eratosthenes, and Squier Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
Cumberland, Richard, 1631-1718: An essay towards the recovery of the Jewish measures & weights, comprehending their monies, by help of ancient standards, compared with ours of England useful also to state many of those of the Greeks and Romans, and the eastern nations / by Richard Cumberland ... (London : Printed by Richard Chiswell ..., 1686) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Cumberland, Richard, 1631-1718: The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments together with the Apocrypha (Published and sold by D.D. Smith, 1823), also by Richard Westall and John Canne (page images at HathiTrust)
Cumberland, Richard, 1631-1718: Les loix de la nature : ou l'on recherche et l'on établit, par la nature des choses, la forme de ces loix, leurs principaux chefs, leur ordre, leur publication & leur obligation ; on y refute aussi les elémens de la morale & de la politique de Thomas Hobbes (Chez Theodore Haak, 1757), also by Jean Barbeyrac (page images at HathiTrust)
Cumberland, Richard, 1631-1718: Origines gentium antiquissimæ; or, Attempts for discovering the times of the first planting of nations. In several tracts. (Printed by W.B. for R. Wilkin, 1724), also by Squier Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
Cumberland, Richard, 1631-1718: Traité philosophique des loix naturelles : ou l'on recherche et l'on établit, par la nature des choses, la forme de ces loix, leurs principaux chefs, leur ordre, leur publication & leur obligation : on y refute aussi les elémens de la morale & de la politique de Thomas Hobbes. (Chez Pierre Mortier., 1744), also by Jean Barbeyrac (page images at HathiTrust)

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