2 edition of The Cambridge Platonists found in the catalog.
The Cambridge Platonists
Gerald R. Cragg
Published
1968
by Oxford University Press in New York
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Written in
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 437-444.
| Statement | edited by Gerald R. Cragg. |
| Series | A Library of Protestant thought |
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Pagination | xiii, 451 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 451 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL23746124M |
The Cambridge Platonists attempted to “establish some final court of appeal on matters of religious doctrine” against the rising religious pluralism in the aftermath of the English Reformation. They did this by grounding religious belief not in institutional authority but in the “certitude of the mind itself.”. The group of English theologians traditionally known as ""The Cambridge Platonists"" form an important link between medieval Christian theology and the thought of the modern world. Their center was Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, and they taught and wrote in the midst of the struggle between Puritanism and the Church of England. Though not Puritans themselves &#; they rejected.
The Cambridge Platonists at the origins of Enlightenment: texts, debates, and reception () Prof. Douglas Hedley, Dr. David Leech, Dr. James Bryson, Dr. Mark Burden, Dr. Christian Hengstermann, Dr. Michael Hawkins – This project, is funded by an £, AHRC research grant.. Early Modern Conversions. Many of these are among those which may have been donated by the former fellow of Queens’, John Smith (), who was a member of the important group of philosophers active in Cambridge who were known as the “Cambridge Platonists”. The Donors’ Book at Queens’ which records brief titles of books donated to the Old Library by.
Benjamin Whichcote developed an account of human nature that attempts to reconcile the obligations of reason with those of the Christian faith. The chapter offers an interpretation of his account as a variant of the image of God doctrine and argues that its core feature is embraced by the other central figures of Cambridge Platonism, i.e. Ralph Cudworth, Henry More, and John Smith. Buy The Cambridge Platonists Revised ed. by C. A. Patrides (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible sunshinesteaming.com: C. A. Patrides.
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Jul 07, · read the Cambridge Platonists because I think they still have something valuable to say. Not everyone would agree with me - but, I think the portrait of Benjamin Whichcote which graces the cover of this book (and the frontispiece) says something about the sort of men we are dealing sunshinesteaming.com by: The Cambridge Platonists were a group of theologians and philosophers at the University of Cambridge in the middle of the 17th century.
The leading figures were Ralph Cudworth, Nathaniel Culverwell, Benjamin Whichcote, and Henry More. The Cambridge Platonists were a group of English seventeenth-century thinkers associated with the University of Cambridge. The most important philosophers among them were Henry More (–) and Ralph Cudworth (–), both fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge.
The group also included Benjamin Whichcote (–), Peter Sterry (–), John Smith (–), Nathaniel. Jan 02, · Cambridge Platonists, group of 17th-century English philosophic and religious thinkers who hoped to reconcile Christian ethics with Renaissance humanism, religion with the new science, and faith with rationality.
Their leader was Benjamin Whichcote, who expounded in his sermons the Christian. The Cambridge Platonists and Their Place in Religious Thought by Geoffrey Pawson and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at sunshinesteaming.com Note: Citations are based on reference standards.
However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. The specific requirements or preferences of your reviewing publisher, classroom teacher, institution or organization should be applied. Cambridge Platonists: Books. 1 - 13 of 13 results This book offers an important reappraisal of Schelling's philosophy and his relationship to German Idealism.
Focusing on Schelling's self-critique in early identity philosophy the author rejects those criticisms of Schelling made by both Hegel and Heidegger. This work significantly redraws. To the Cambridge Platonists, religion and reason were in harmony, and reality was comprised not of sensation, but of "intelligible forms" that exist behind perception.
Universal, ideal forms (a la Plato) inform matter, and the senses are unreliable guides to reality. As divines and in matters of polity, the Cambridge Platonists argued for Cited by: 7. This volume in the distinguished Classics of Western Spirituality series presents a collection of essays, poetry, and treatises by Cambridge Platonists, a movement in philosophical theology that flourished around Cambridge University in the 17th century and left a profound impact on the shape of subsequent religious life in the English speaking world.
Cambridge Platonists, group of English philosophers, centered at Cambridge 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.
The Cambridge Platonists book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. This volume contains the selected discourses of four seventeenth- 4/5(3). Buy Cambridge Platonists First Edition by C.
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- The handy philosophy answer book. Jan 16, · This volume contains essays that examine the work and legacy of the Cambridge Platonists. The essays reappraise the ideas of this key group of English thinkers who served as a key link between the Renaissance and the modern era. The contributors examine the sources of the Cambridge Platonists and discuss their take-up in the sunshinesteaming.com: Ebook/DAISY3.
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Patrides will certainly be proper sufficient. Cambridge Platonists (17th century) Main article: Cambridge Platonists In the seventeenth century in England, neoplatonism was fundamental to the school of the Cambridge Platonists, whose luminaries included Henry More, Ralph Cudworth, Benjamin Whichcote and John Smith, all graduates of the University of Cambridge.
The Cambridge Platonists were defenders of tolerance in the political as well as the moral sphere ; they held that practical j u d g e m e n t came down in the last instance to individual conscience ; and they laid the foundations of our modern conceptions of conscience and liberty.
But at the same. The Cambridge Platonists were saved from the arid rationalism of the Deists by their mystical apprehension of God. They recognized the limits of philosophy and realized that some forms of knowledge cannot be apprehended in conceptual forms but are the product of. The Cambridge Platonists were among the first English thinkers to read Descartes, and More carried on an extensive correspondence with him.
Like Descartes, the Cambridge Platonists were dualists and they regarded a dualism of spirit and matter as indispensable for their defense of the spiritual realm against materialistic reduction.
This volume contains essays that examine the work and legacy of the Cambridge Platonists. The essays reappraise the ideas of this key group of English thinkers who served as a key link between the Renaissance and the modern era.
The contributors examine the sources of the Cambridge Platonists. Both Plato and the Cambridge Platonists hold the view that moral knowledge depends primarily on cognitive resources which are innate to the mind.
There is, nevertheless, a need for our minds to be prompted through experience in order for knowledge to occur. The following study is an attempt to reconstruct and compare the.This book has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided by CrossRef.
Roinila, Markku Boethius and the Scale of Nature’, in G. A. J. Rogers (ed.), The Cambridge Platonists in Philosophical Context (Dordrecht, Boston, and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, ), pp. 93–Author: Jacqueline Broad.Thanks for those references.
I'll have to look up the Jones book; I'm not familiar with it. Here is another fascinating connection: One of the Cambridge Platonists was Anne Conway. She was greatly admired by More and all the others.
She corresponded with Leibniz who acknowledged her influence.
