Deism reflected the scientific paradigm of the times in which the world inexorably and thoroughly followed strict mathematical laws of nature. |
If man has not a free will, then the Machiavellians are justified, as are Calvinism, Rationalism, Deism, Capitalism, and Communism. |
He was also younger brother of Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury, an inveterate duellist and the father of English Deism. |
Thus any absolutism the state might impose on the clergy is no different from the absolute truth of the Deism Mendelssohn already assumes. |
Past and present forms of Pantheism, Panentheism and Deism are critically examined. |
Yet his Deism had been the legacy of his freethinking Jesuit teachers at his elite Parisian lycee, not of his fellow philosophes. |