Richard Price
Richard Price FRS (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a Welsh 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".
Works (27)
Two tracts on civil liberty
Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America
Observations on the nature of civil liberty
Observations on the importance of the American Revolution
A review of the principal questions in morals
Additional observations on the nature and value of civil liberty, and the war with America
Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America
Sermons on the security and happiness of a virtuous course, on the goodness of God, and the resurrection of Lazarus
Four dissertations
Two tracts on civil liberty, the war with America, and the debts and finances of the kingdom
A discourse addressed to a congregation at Hackney, on February 21, 1781
Discours sur l'amour de la patrie
Additional observations on the nature and value of civil liberty, and the war with America
Observations on Reversionary Payments
A free discussion of the doctrines of materialism and philosophical necessity in correspondence with Joseph Priestley, 1778
A discourse on the love of our country
A review of the principal questions and difficulties in morals, particularly those relating to the original of our ideas of virtue, its nature, foundation, reference to the deity, obligation, subject-matter, and sanctions
Observations sur la nature de la liberté civile
Observations on reversionary payments
Observations on the nature of civil liberty
Sermons on the Christian doctrine as received by the different denominations of Christians
Political writings
Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles of Government, and the Justice and Policy of the War with America
The correspondence of Richard Price
Richard Price and the ethical foundations of the American Revolution
An appeal to the public, on the subject of the national debt
Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America