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This thinker and Joseph Goebbels are the main examples of “bad morality” in Jonathan Bennett’s “The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn.” This thinker’s example of light rays bouncing off a mirror inspired Jaegwon Kim to choose him as the namesake of a dictum holding that “vertical determination excludes horizontal causation.” This thinker attacked Arminian “self-determination” in a 1754 treatise, prompting Samuel Johnson to quip that “all theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.” The SEP entry for this author of (*) Freedom of the Will declares him America’s most important philosophical theologian (-5[1])for works (-5[1])like Religious Affections. The Old Lights opposed this (10[1])thinker, who claimed that (-5[1])humans offend God (10[1])worse than (10[1])“ever a stubborn rebel did his prince” as he holds us like a “loathsome insect (10[6])over (10[1])the (10[1])fire.” For 10 points, name this author (10[1])of the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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