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Born 1617 • England
Died June 26, 1688 (aged 71) • Cambridge • England
Notable Works “A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality” • “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism Is Confuted and its Impossibility Demonstrated”
Subjects Of Study ethics • existence of God

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