The Lesser God of the Deists

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Natural religion

Anthony Collins

Woolston

David Hume, Essay on Miracles, Dialogues on Natural Religion

James D. Watson, Francis Crick

Voltaire

"rational supernaturalism"

Frederick II, Sans Souci

Immanuel Kant, Religion Within the Bounds of Religion Alone

"Sturm and Drang" Movement

G.F. Hegel: Wer der Welt vernunfig anseht, seht der Welt vernunftig an.

Syncretism

"change disciplines:" political economics, political science, sociology, education, history as propaganda

secular eschatology of progress; a social utopia

Rene Descartes; Cogito, ergo sum

Cartesianism