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Paley, William

▪ British philosopher and priest
born July 1743, Peterborough, Northamptonshire [now in Cambridgeshire], Eng.
died May 25, 1805, Lincoln, Lincolnshire

      English Anglican priest, Utilitarian philosopher, and author of influential works on Christianity, ethics, and science, among them the standard exposition in English theology of the teleological argument for the existence of God.

      Educated at Giggleswick School and Christ's College, Cambridge, Paley graduated in 1763 as senior wrangler and was appointed fellow and tutor of his college in 1766. After becoming rector of Musgrave (1775), Dalston (1776), and Appleby (1777), he was made archdeacon of Carlisle (1782) and later a canon of St. Paul's (1794), subdean of Lincoln (1795), and rector of Bishop-Wearmouth (1795).

      Paley's most important works were The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785), the subject of lectures at the University of Cambridge; A View of the Evidence of Christianity (1794), which was required reading for entrance to Cambridge until the 20th century; and Natural Theology (1802), based on John Ray's Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation (1691). In Natural Theology, Paley used the analogy of the watch: both the world and the watch presuppose a maker. The book strongly influenced Charles Darwin.

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  • Paley, William — (1743–1805)    Philosopher and Theologian.    For much of his early career Paley taught at the University of Cambridge. Subsequently he served a parish in Cumbria and he was appointed Archdeacon of Carlisle in 1782. He is remembered for his works …   Who’s Who in Christianity

  • Paley, William — (1743–1805) English theologian and moral philosopher. Paley is remembered for two contributions to natural theology. The first is the sustained defence of the argument to design for the existence of God, in his Natural Theology (1802). Paley… …   Philosophy dictionary

  • PALEY, William — (1743 1805)    English theologian and UTILITARIAN philosopher who was Archdeacon of Carlisle. His book The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy became the ethics text at the University of Cambridge while his attacks on DEISM in A View of… …   Concise dictionary of Religion

  • PALEY, WILLIAM —     one of the most masculine and truly English of thinkers and writers, born at Peterborough; studied at Christ s College, Cambridge, where he was Senior Wrangler, and obtained a Fellowship, held afterwards various Church preferments, and died… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • Paley, William — (1743 1805)    Theologian, s. of a minor canon of Peterborough, where he was b., went at 15 as a sizar to Christ s Coll., Camb., where he was Senior Wrangler, and became a Fellow and Tutor of his coll. Taking orders in 1767 he held many benefices …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

  • Christianity — /kris chee an i tee/, n., pl. Christianities. 1. the Christian religion, including the Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox churches. 2. Christian beliefs or practices; Christian quality or character: Christianity mixed with pagan elements; …   Universalium

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