See Also: Beam Reach - Sailing(gambling)
Close Reach - Sailing(gambling)
Broad Reach - Sailing(gambling)
On the Beam - Sailing(gambling)
Beam - Sailing(gambling)
Broad on the Beam - Sailing(gambling)
Bow & Beam Bearings - Sailing(gambling)
Cudworth, Ralph(encyclopedia)
beam-beam reaction(medicine)
reach(3)(dictionary)

Cudworth, Ralph (sh) and Beam Reach - Sailing (gambling)


Cudworth, Ralph (sh)




born 1617, Aler, Somerset, Eng.
died June 26, 1688, Cambridge

English theologian and philosopher.

Reared as a Puritan, he eventually adopted Nonconformist views such as the notion that church government and religious practice should be individual rather than authoritarian. He became a leader of the Cambridge Platonists. In ethics, his outstanding work is A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731), which was directed against Puritan Calvinism, the theology of Rene Descartes, and the attempt by Thomas Hobbes to reduce morality to obedience to civil authority. He stressed the natural good or evil inherent in an event or act, in contrast to the Calvinist-Cartesian notion of divine law. "Things are what they are," he wrote, "not by Will but by Nature." See also intuitionism; voluntarism.


Beam Reach - Sailing (gambling)


Sailing on a point of sail such that the apparent wind is coming from the beam (side) of the boat at about a 90?angle. A beam reach is usually the fastest point of sail. A beam reach is a point of sail between a broad reach and a close reach.