When1: 1746
When2: 1758
Who: Jonathan Edwards [Edwards, Jonathan]
What: minister
Where: Boston, Massachusetts
works\ Treatise concerning Religious Affections [1746]; Freedom of the Will [1754]; Original Sin [1758]; End of Creation [1758]; True Virtue [1758]; History of Redemption [1758: unfinished]
Detail: He lived 1703 to 1758 and was Puritan.
Epistemology
People know the primary and secondary qualities from God and so can perceive harmony and beauty.
Ethics
God gives sense of virtue and kindness to all beings. God knows all infallibly, so all events are necessary, not contingent. People have no free will, though God is not the cause and is not forcing choice.
Metaphysics
All things depend on God, which is eternal and everywhere and conscious. All is deterministic.
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