George Clymer
George Clymer , 1739-1813, American political leader, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. Philadelphia. A prosperous merchant, he ardently supported the colonial cause before the American Revolution and served (1775-76) as one of the Continental treasurers. In 1776 he served as delegate to the Continental Congress, where he signed the Declaration of Independence. He was again (1780-83) a delegate to the Continental Congress. Clymer was the first president of the Bank of Philadelphia, and he helped to organize the Bank of North America. While in the Pennsylvania legislature (1785-88), he wrote a report leading to penal code reforms. Clymer, a delegate to the Federal Convention, was a member (1789-91) of the first U.S. Congress.
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Jonathan Edwards's Writings: Text, Context, Interpretation.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...that Edwards's Nature of True Virtues (1765) invites close comparison with the English philosopher George Berkeley's Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher (1732), both of which attacked the moral-sense theory of ethics. Wayne Proudfoot concludes...
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Private Vices, Publick Benefits: The Contemporary Reception of Bernard Mandeville.
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...edition of that work, and his Letter to Dion (1732). In the latter Mandeville responds to Dialogue II in George Berkeley's Alciphron (1732), which Stafford includes in this collection. Among the other selections that had already been reprinted in our...
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Hellenistic Commentary to the New Testament
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...many NT scholars read Apuleius, Aristotle, Diogenes Laertius or Epictetus, for example, how many read what remains of Alciphron, Apollodorus, Callimachus or Eunapius? Pace Crossan et al., the NT clearly arose in a distinctively Jewish environment...
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George Berkeley: Idealism and the Man.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...maneuver, it is important to note that Berkeley consistently expressed hostility to freethinking from his early writings through Alciphron (1732), which was expressly directed against freethinking and contained an explicit attack on the cognitivist semantic...
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The Works of George Berkeley, 4 vols. (reprint, 1901).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2006; 518 words
; ...Vision, A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonus, De Motu, Alciphron; or, The Minute Philosopher, The Theory of Vision, The Analyst, A Defence of Free-thinking in Mathematics, Arithmetica...
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Mariposa sangrienta.(Artículo breve)
Magazine article from: Contenido; 5/1/2007; 403 words
; En Filipinas descubrieron una nueva espede de mariposa bautizada Lycaena alciphron parasitus que se alimenta principalmente con sangre de mamferos como musaraas, perros, ornitorrincos y aun seres humanos.
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The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy.
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 6/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...part survey of Berkeley's major works - The Principles of Human Knowledge, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, Alciphron, and Siris - opens with an attempt to reclaim ad hominem associations between ethical speakers and philosophical statements...
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Art sacre et modernite: Les Grandes Annees de la revue "L'art Sacre."(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 12/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...Ed. D. Efroymson et al. Collegeville: Liturgical, 1993. Pp. 160. $11.95. SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY Berkeley, G. Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher in focus. N.Y.: Routledge, 1993 [1732]. Pp. 234. $59.95. Christology in Dialogue...
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Philosophy vol. 81, no. 1, January 2006.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/2006; 700+ words
; ...clause to be nondefining. John P. Wright's objection to Reid's rejoinder is rebutted. A similarly worded argument in Alciphron avoids confusion since Berkeley denies that things like tables can be said in any unqualified sense to be seen. The Secular...
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Alciphron
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Alciphron , fl. c.AD 200?, Greek satirist. His only extant work, in fine Attic style, consists of over 100 fictitious letters from ordinary people living in Athens in the 4th cent. BC
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George Berkeley
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...sailed for the New World. From January 1729 until the fall of 1731 he lived in Newport, R. I. During this period he wrote Alciphron, a series of dialogues directed against freethinkers. The financing of the Bermuda scheme eventually failed and, after...
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Wishart, William
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...club. He was an energetic exponent of the moral sense philosophy of Shaftesbury and Hutcheson . In addition to sermons, he published anonymous satires on Berkeley's Alciphron in 1734 and Doddridge's Life of Col. Gardiner in 1747.
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Berkeley, George
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...1729) and settled at Rhode Island for nearly three years. There he formed a Literary and Philosophical Society, and wrote Alciphron (1732), a series of Platonic dialogues opposing deism and finding proof of God's existence in Berkeley's own theory...
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Philosophy of Religion
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...called physico-theology and deism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, its peak being Bishop George Berkeley's Alciphron (1732), Bishop Butler's Analogy (1736), and David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779). An idea...
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