British deist and freethinker who argued for the necessity of free inquiry in matters of religion and denied libertarian free will.
A Discourse of Free-Thinking: established free inquiry as an intellectual duty in religion. Necessitarianism: human actions are causally determined — developed a compatibilist defense of moral responsibility against libertarian free will.
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