Abraham Tucker (1705-74) was an important British moral philosopher whose life's work was "The Light of Nature Pursued. Including a short biography of Tucker, it was first published posthumously and was a part of the intellectual ferment out of which utilitarianism emerged. Tucker's eighteenth-centu[...]
Known most widely for his role in the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s, Abraham Joshua Heschel made major scholarly contributions to the fields of biblical studies, rabbinics, medieval Jewish philosophy, Hasidism, and mysticism. Yet, his most ambitious scholarly achievement, his three-v[...]