CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS

group of English philosophers, centered at Cambridge Univ. in the latter half of the 17th cent. In reaction to the mechanical philosophy of Thomas Hobbes this school revived certain Platonic and Neoplatonic ideas. Chief among these was a mystical conception of the soul's relation to God and the belief that moral ideas are innate in man. Although tending toward mysticism, the school also stressed the importance of reason, maintaining that faith and reason differ only in degree. The assertion of the founder of the school, Benjamin Whichcote, that "the spirit in man is the cradle of the Lord" became the motto for the entire movement. Other leading members were Ralph Cudworth, Henry More, and John Smith.

See G. R. Cragg, ed., The Cambridge Platonists (1968); E. Cassirer, The Platonic Renaissance in England (tr. 1953, repr. 1970).

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books on: Cambridge Platonists  - 912 results

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The Neo-Platonists: A Study in the History of Hellenism
Book by Thomas Whittaker; Cambridge University Press, 1928
Subjects: Neoplatonism
...system of the universe." The Cambridge Platonists, as represented especially by...worlds in space which the Neo-Platonists had rejected. Neither on this...Platonic in origin; for the Neo- Platonists had been the first to formulate...
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Augustine's Invention of the Inner Self: The Legacy of a Christian Platonist
Book by Phillip Cary; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Augustine--Saint, Bishop Of Hippo--Contributions In Doctrine Of Soul, Soul--History Of Doctrines--Early Church, Ca. 30-600
...Sources , trans. H. Wedeck Cambridge: Harvard University Press...1982 . Dillon, J., The Middle Platonists Ithaca: Cornell University Press...Christian in an Age of Anxiety Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965 . Dorrie...
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The Conway Letters: The Correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More, and Their Friends, 1642-1684
Book by Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Sarah E. Hutton, Anne Conway, Henry More; University of Oxford, 1992
Subjects: Cambridge Platonists--Correspondence, Conway, Anne--1631-1679--Correspondence, Great Britain--Intellectual Life--17th Century, More, Henry--1614-1687--Correspondence, Philosophers--Great Britain--Correspondence, Theologians--Great Britain--Correspondence
...Vermont Transcendentalists to the Cambridge Platonists in James Marsh and the Vermont...the relationship between the Cambridge Platonists and nineteenth-century...Mythology and Metaphysics of the Cambridge Platonists in The Myths of Plato...
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Erasmus and Cambridge
Book by D. F. S. Thomson, Desiderius Erasmus; University of Toronto Press, 1963
Subjects: University Of Cambridge--History--Sources
...Classical Heritage and Its Beneficiaries , Cambridge, 1954. BROWN J. H. Elizabethan Schooldays...Gonville and Caius College . Ed. J. Venn. Cambridge, 1904. CAMPAGNAC E. T. The Cambridge Platonists . Oxford, 1901. CARDWELL E. Documentary...
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The Story of Cambridge
Book by Charles W. Stubbs, Herbert Railton; J. M. Dent & Co., 1905
Subjects: Cambridge (England)--History, University Of Cambridge--History
...very pith of the seventeenth century Cambridge evangel, and which one is glad to think remain of the very essence of the Cambridge theology of to-day. That Henry More and the Cambridge Platonists failed in much that they attempted...
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Plato's Minos: The Political and Philosophical Context of the Problem of Natural Right
Journal article by V. Bradley Lewis; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 60, 2006
Subjects: Law--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Law--History, Legal philosophy--History, Natural law--Interpretation and construction, Platonism--Analysis, Platonists--Analysis
...Christopher Rowe, "Cleitophon and Minos," in Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought, ed. Christopher Rowe and Malcolm Schofield (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 303-9. (3) While...
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On Translating the Republic
Journal article by Cordell D.K. Yee; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 64, 2010
Subjects: Platonism--Analysis, Platonists--Analysis
...trans., The Republic, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1935...Bullock and Michael W. Jennings, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996...Republic, ed. G. R. F. Ferrari (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003 2000...
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The Ontological Status of Mathematical Entities: The Necessity for Modern Physics of an Evaluation of Mathematical Systems
Journal article by Lilianne Rivka Kfia; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 47, 1993
Subjects: Mathematical physics--Philosophy, Mathematics--Philosophy, Platonists--Philosophy
...Readings, ed. Paul Benacerraf and Hilary Putnam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 261. (14) Bernays...Readings, ed. Paul Benacerraf and Hilary Putnam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 188. (16...
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Enite's Dominion over the Horses: Notes on the Coalescence of Platonic and Hagiographic Elements in an Episode from Hartmann's 'Erec
Journal article by Peter William Hurst; Medium Aevum, Vol. 63, 1994
Subjects: Arthurian romances--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hagiography--Influence, Platonists--Influence
...Loeb Classical Library 74 (London and Cambridge, Mass., 1973). On this passage...R. L. Benson and G. Constable (Cambridge, Mass., 1982), pp. 1--33...Clogan, Medievalia et Humanistica 6 (Cambridge, 1975). (30)B. de G. dHestroy...
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Why Possible Worlds Aren't
Journal article by James W. Felt; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 50, 1996
Subjects: Metaphysics--Philosophy, Platonists--Philosophy, Possibility--Philosophy
...10) W. V. O. Quine, From a Logical Point of View (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953), 4. (11) This is not...1994):191-222. (13) David Lewis, Counterfactuals (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973),84. (14) Lewis...
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After Enlightenment
Magazine article by John Schwenkler; Commonweal, Vol. 136, January 30, 2009
...Ibn Sina, to Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas of Cusa, Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Jean Bodin, and the Cambridge Platonists. Analytic philosophers have a name for this: we call it driving a MacIntyre (in honor of Alasdair MacIntyres...
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Enabling Encounters: the Case of Nilakanth-nehemiah Goreh, Brahmin Convert
Magazine article by Richard Fox Young; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 29, January 2005
Subjects: Christianity, Goreh, Nilakanth-Nehemiah (1825-85), Hinduism, Religious fundamentalism, Theology
...was about to become a Christian samnyasi-still seems relevant: "Men such as Dr. Henry Brown were Christian Platonists at Cambridge; why then should there be no Christian Vedantists, such as Nehemiah Goreh could have been in the beginning...
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Kierkegaard and Socrates: A Study in Philosophy and Faith
Magazine article by Edward T. Oakes; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, March 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Kierkegaard and Socrates: A Study in Philosophy and Faith (Book)--Book reviews
...SOCRATES: A STUDY IN PHILOSOPHY AND FAITH by JACOB HOWLAND Cambridge University Press, 246 pages, $80 With the exception of...totalizing doctrine. Whether that was due more to later neo-Platonists such as Plotinus is irrelevant here. What matters is that...
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The Sacred Poem
Magazine article by Robert P. Imbelli; Commonweal, Vol. 137, October 8, 2010
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Dante's Commedia: Theology as Poetry (Essay collection)--Book reviews
...The essays gathered here originated at a conference held at Cambridge University, which drew Dante specialists and theologians...Bonaventure and the Franciscan school, as well as the neo-Platonists. Vittorio Montemaggis contribution to this collection...
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Leibniz & Job: The Metaphysics of Evil & the Experience of Evil
Magazine article by Leszek Kolakowski; New Criterion, Vol. 22, January 2004
Subjects: Metaphysics
...somehow embedded in the structure of the world. Some ancient Platonists (e.g., Plutarch of Chaeroneia or Numenius) also succumbed...the world that is contrary to God is sin--so says the Cambridge Platonist Benjamin Cudworts--and sin is a non-entity: nothing...
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Quizopedia
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 26, 2010
...Marmalade, Movement: the Cambridge examples are Apostles, Diet, Massachusetts, Platonists, Spy Ring, Rules Theatre...be prefixed by either Cambridge or Oxford Which will apply...Massachusetts, Movement, Platonists, Rules, Spy Ring and...


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encyclopedia articles on: Cambridge Platonists  - 4 results

 
 
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Cambridge Platonists
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS group of English philosophers, centered at Cambridge in the latter half of the 17th cent. In reaction...and John Smith. See G. R. Cragg, ed., The Cambridge Platonists (1968); E. Cassirer, The Platonic...
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More, Henry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...representatives of the school of Cambridge Platonists . His writings emphasized the mystical...More: The Rational Theology of a Cambridge Platonist (1962); G. R. Cragg, ed., The Cambridge Platonists (1985...
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Neoplatonism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...German Romantics (see romanticism ), the 17th-century English metaphysical poets, William Blake , and the Cambridge Platonists . Many mystical movements in the West, including those of Meister Eckhardt and Jacob Boehme, owe something to...
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Cudworth, Ralph
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CUDWORTH, RALPH 1617 88, English theologian and philosopher. He was a noted representative of the Cambridge Platonists . Cudworths most ambitious work, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, was never completed. The first...


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