Freethought
The refusal to accept belief on authority, from Epicurus and Lucretius through Paine to the freethought lecturers.
Under: Secular and Non-Theistic (tradition)
History of Worldviews
- Epicurus; c. 341 BCE
- Lucretius, De Rerum Natura; c. 55 BCE
- Servetus executed; 1554
- Bruno executed; 1600
- Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus; 1670
- Encyclopédie; 1751-1772
- Paine's Age of Reason; 1794