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What philosophy did John follow?
Witherspoon thus believed moral judgment should be pursued as a science.
was he religious?
Thomas Reid than the Christian idealism of Jonathan Edwards.
Did he teach any of his beliefs?
his lectures on moral philosophy at Princeton, required of all juniors and seniors, Witherspoon argued for the revolutionary.

Question: why did he argue for the revolutionary?
Self-contained rewrite: why did John Witherspoon argue for the revolutionary?