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Conscience, as is detailed in sections below, is a concept in national and international law, [ 4 ] is increasingly conceived of as applying to the world as a whole, [ 5 ] has motivated numerous notable acts for the public good [ 6 ] and been the subject of many prominent examples of literature, music and film. [ 7 ]
Representation of consciousness from the 17th century by Robert Fludd, an English Paracelsian physician. Consciousness, at its simplest, is awareness of internal and external existence. [1] However, its nature has led to millennia of analyses, explanations, and debate by philosophers, scientists, and theologians. Opinions differ about what ...
1627 – Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist, and inventor. 1627 – Hugh Binning, Scottish philosopher and theologian. 1627 – Itō Jinsai, Japanese Confucian philosopher. 1630 – Pierre Daniel Huet, French churchman, scholar, editor, and Bishop of Soissons.
Locke was born on 29 August 1632, in a small thatched cottage by the church in Wrington, Somerset, about 12 miles from Bristol. He was baptised the same day, as both of his parents were Puritans. Locke's father, also named John, was an attorney who served as clerk to the Justices of the Peace in Chew Magna [ 20 ] and as a captain of cavalry for ...
Jacobus Arminius (/ ɑːrˈmɪniəs /; Dutch: Jakob Hermanszoon[ a ] ; 10 October 1560 – 19 October 1609) was a Dutch Reformed minister and theologian during the Protestant Reformation period whose views became the basis of Arminianism and the Dutch Remonstrant movement. He served from 1603 as professor in theology at the University of Leiden ...
Christopher St. Germain was born in 1460 to Sir Henry and Anne St. Germain of Shilton, Warwickshire. [1]In 1528, St. Germain published his first book, Dialogus de fundamentis legum Anglie et de conscientia, known as The Doctor and Student after the titles of the two interlocutors, a doctor of divinity and a student of the laws of England, a barrister. [2]
Contents. Age of Enlightenment. The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was an intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The Enlightenment featured a range of social ideas centered on the value of knowledge learned by way of rationalism and of ...
Busher's only published work was entitled Religious Peace; or, a Plea for Liberty of Conscience, long since presented to King James and the High Court of Parliament then sitting, by L. B., Citizen of London, and printed in the year 1614; no copy of this 1614 edition is known. His treatise advocates religious toleration, freedom to print, and to ...