The Cambridge Platonists in Philosophical Context Politics, Metaphysics and Religion

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...

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Other Authors: Rogers, G.A. (Editor), Vienne, J.-M. (Editor), Zarka, Y.C. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1997, 1997
Edition:1st ed. 1997
Series:International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I The Other-Worldly Philosophers and the Real World: The Cambridge Platonists, Theology and Politics
  • II Liberté et Vérité: Politique et morale dans la correspondance hollandaise de More et de Cudworth
  • III Critique de Hobbes et fondement de la morale chez Cudworth
  • IV The Heritage of Patristic Platonism in Seventeenth century English Philosophical Theology
  • V John Smith et le Portique
  • VI Cudworth, Boethius and the Scale of Nature
  • VII Ralph Cudworth, un platonisme paradoxal: La Nature dans la Digression concerning the Plastick Life of Nature
  • VIII ?????? et Relation: Du platonisme à l’empirisme
  • IX The Role of Illuminism in the Thought of Henry More
  • X “La Nature est un art”. Le vitalisme de Cudworth et de More
  • XI Force, Motion and Causality: More’s Critique of Descartes
  • XII Cudworth versus Descartes: platonisme et sens commun dans la critique des Méditations
  • XIII Les différentes lectures du System de Cudworth par G. W. Leibniz
  • XIV Platonic Idealism in Modern Philosophy from Malebranche to Berkeley