Herbert, Edward (Lord Herbert of Cherbury)
- Herbert, Edward (Lord Herbert of Cherbury)
(1583–1648)
Philosopher.
Herbert was born into an aristocratic English family and was an older brother of the poet George herbert. He was appointed an ambassador to France in 1619 and, while there, he published De Veritate, an attack on empiricist philosophy. This was to be very influential on the later seventeenth-century thinker John locke. He also was the author of various theological works in which he argued for the existence of God and the importance of duty. He is remembered as a forerunner of the English Deists.
Edward Herbert, The Life of Edward, First Lord Herbert of Cherbury, edited by J.M. Shuttleworth, (1976);
R.D. Bedford, The Defence of Truth: Herbert of Cherbury and the 17th-Century (1979).
Who’s Who in Christianity .
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