PHILOSOPHER

Richard Price

1723 - 1791

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Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a British moral philosopher, Nonconformist minister and mathematician. He was also a political reformer and pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the French and American Revolutions. He was well-connected and fostered communication between many people, including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington, Mirabeau and the Marquis de Condorcet. According to the historian John Davies, Price was "the greatest Welsh thinker of all time". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Price is the 1,175th most popular philosopher (up from 1,185th in 2019), the 4,228th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,131st in 2019) and the 85th most popular British Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Richard Price ranks 1,175 out of 1,267. Before him are Friedrich Gogarten, Papirius Fabianus, Nick Bostrom, John Finnis, David Malet Armstrong, and John McDowell. After him are Richard Posner, Hendrik Adamson, Michael Hardt, Volker Zotz, William Chittick, and Bas van Fraassen.

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Among people born in 1723, Richard Price ranks 29. Before him are Antoine Louis, William Chambers, John Byron, Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet, Peter Ascanius, and Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes. After him are William Livingston, and Crispus Attucks. Among people deceased in 1791, Richard Price ranks 18. Before him are João de Loureiro, Francesca Lebrun, Besiki, Catharine Macaulay, Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Anna Louisa Karsch. After him are Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Benjamin Harrison V, and Francis Hopkinson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Price ranks 4,229 out of 8,785. Before him are Ray Wilson (1934), Richard Gunn (1871), Florence Pugh (1996), Norman Smith (1923), Horatio Caro (1862), and Samuel Palmer (1805). After him are Henry Litolff (1818), Neil Bartlett (1932), George Rodger (1908), Peter Davison (1951), Joe Cole (1981), and Stanley Morison (1889).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Richard Price ranks 85. Before him are Dugald Stewart (1753), Ernest Belfort Bax (1854), Walter Burley (1275), Nick Land (1962), Ralph Cudworth (1617), and Bernard Bosanquet (1848). After him are Hector Boece (1465), John Peckham (1227), Alister McGrath (1953), George Henry Lewes (1817), Mary Midgley (1919), and Simon Blackburn (1944).

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