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Richard Cumberland

Richard Cumberland 1631-1718, English philosopher. He was bishop of Peterborough from 1691. In his De legibus naturae [on natural laws] (1672) he first propounded the doctrine of utilitarianism and opposed the egoistic ethics of Thomas Hobbes.

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Cumberland, Richard (1632–1718), Bp. of Peterborough from 1691 and moral philosopher. In De legibus naturae (1672) he maintained that the laws of nature are ethical and immutable, and that their root principle is that of ‘Universal Benevolence’. He was the real founder of English Utilitarianism.

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Cumberland, Richard (1732–1811), author of a number of sentimental comedies, of which The Brothers (1769) and The West Indian (1771) are the most interesting. He also wrote tragedies; two novels, Arundel (1789) and Henry (1795); a translation of the Clouds of Aristophanes; and an autobiography. Cumberland is caricatured by Sheridan as Sir Fretful Plagiary in The Critic.

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