The English theologian and moral philosopher Samuel Clarke (1675-1729) was in his time the foremost exponent of rationalist ethics and a prominent defender of Newtonian physics. Samuel Clarke was born on Oct. 11, 1675, in Norwich, where his father was...

In a passage in his Lettres philosophiques ( Philosophical Letters, 1734), translated by Leonard Tancock in Letters from England (1980), Voltaire describes Samuel Clarke as "a man of unswerving virtue and a gentle disposition, more interested in his...

Clarke, Samuel(1675 71. Vailati, Ezio. Leibniz and Clarke: A Study of Their Correspondence. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Whiston, William. Historical Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Samuel Clarke. London: N.p., 1730. Yolton, John W. Thinking...

Samuel Clarke (October 11, 1675 – May 17, 1729) was an English philosopher. The son of Edward Clarke, an alderman who represented the city of Norwich in parliament, was educated at the free school of Norwich and at Caius College, Cambridge. The...

Edited by Roger Ariew. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2000. xvi + 110 pp. Paper, $8.95--The correspondence between G. W. Leibniz and Samuel Clarke on the implications of Sir Isaac Newton's physics to natural theology was the last battle that Leibniz fought with the...

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The former president has been charged with stealing more than $1 million from Liberia's coffers while in office, government officials said Wednesday.Gyude Bryant, who led the interim government from October 2003 until current President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf took office in January 2006, had previously been...