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Richard Cumberland, 1631-1718. Critic of the Platonist current in the English thought of his day. His chief work, De legibus naturae, was a comprehensive attack on Hobbes.

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• Hobbes and Contemporary Philosophy: Richard Cumberland

  http://www.bartleby.com/217/1216.html
  Paragraph from the Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Briefly describes Cumberland's De legibus naturae.

• Richard Cumberland

  http://www.iep.utm.edu/cumberla/
  Article from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, outlining Cumberland's arguments in his chief work, De legibus naturae.

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