Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert of Castle Iceland KB ( March 3, 1583 Eyton -on-Severn, Shropshire; † August 20, 1648 ) was an Anglo - Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and philosopher of religion.

Title of nobility

Between 1619 and 1624, he worked as a diplomat at the French court in Paris. In recognition of his services as a diplomat, he was elevated to the hereditary nobility. In 1624, he won the Irish title of Baron Herbert of Cherbury in the County of Shrewsbury, in 1629 the English title Baron Herbert of Castle Iceland in the County of Kerry. At his death in 1648 his son Richard inherited his title.

Philosophy

After Herbert religion is entirely a matter of reason. This aims to be primarily in the service of morality. His reasoning by humans can only focus on the individual human being, if morality is the center of life. With this idea he is a classic representative of natural religion. He is considered the founder of the 5 basic principles of natural religion, which he referred to as veritates catholicae.

The five basic principles of natural religion

These five principles are accessible to all people equally by their reason and can be captured by the natural instinct.

Works

  • Major works, London 1738-40. Reprint ed in 3 volumes. and introduced by Günter Gawlick. From man - Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1966-71, ISBN 978-3-7728-0199-0.
  • De Veritate translated into English by Meyrick H. Carré (1937 ); Facsimile edition of Thoemmes of Continuum (1999) ISBN 1-85506-126-0
  • John Churton Collins ( ed.): The Poems of Lord Herbert of Cherbury. Chatto and Windus, London 1881 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  • Sidney Lee ( ed.): The Autobiography of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury. Nimmo, London 1886 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ).
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