Richard Price


God is always ready to do us all possible good;
but... there is something to be done by us...
which, if neglected, cannot but deprive us of his protection,
and leave us destitute and unhappy.
Can a man...preserve a constant intercourse between his mind and the first and best of all beings,
without growing like to him and being confirmed in pious gratitude and resignation?
It is one of the justest observations, that what we do not think of is the same to us as if it did not exist.


Richard Price's Reply to David Hume on the Practicality of Reason in:
Wyner, Garret: Toward a Phenomenogy of Conscientious Action and a Theory of the Practicality of Reason

Primary Sources:
A Review of the Principal Questions of Morals (Raphael ed. 1948)
A Free Discussion of the Doctrines of Materialism and Philosophical Necessity
Four Dissertations:
1. On Providence
2. On Prayer
3. On the Reasons for Expecting that Virtuous Men Shall Meet After Death &c
4. On the Importance of Christianity, The Nature of Historical Evidence and Miracles
The Vanity, Misery and Infamy of Knowledge Without Suitable Practice
The Nature, Reasonableness and Efficacy of Prayer, Explained
Sermons on Various Subjects
Sermons on the Christian Doctrine as Received by the Different Denominations of Christians
The Correspondence of Richard Price (Thomas and Peach, eds)

Secondary Sources:
William Morgan: Memoirs of The Life of The Rev. Richard Price
Roland Thomas: Richard Price: Philosopher and Apostle of Liberty
Henry Aiken: The Indefinability and Simplicity of Rightness in Price's Review of Morals
Winston Barnes: Richard Price: A Neglected Eighteenth Century Moralist
Cua, Antonio J. Reason and Virtue: A Study in the Ethics of Richard Price