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Author : C. A. Patrides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1980-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052129942X
This volume contains selected discourses chosen to illustrate the tenets characteristic of the influential movement known as Cambridge Platonism.
Author : Douglas Hedley,David Leech
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030222000
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 eighteenth-century. Readers will learn about the intellectual formation of this philosophical group as well as the reception their ideas received. Coverage also details how their work links to earlier Platonic traditions. This interdisciplinary collection explores a broad range of themes and an appropriately wide range of knowledge. It brings together an international team of scholars. They offer a broad combination of expertise from across the following disciplines: philosophy, Neoplatonic studies, religious studies, intellectual history, seventeenth-century literature, women’s writing, and dissenting studies.The essays were originally presented at a series of workshops in Cambridge on the Cambridge Platonists funded by the AHRC.
Author : John Tulloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Cambridge Platonists
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019942064
Author : Louise Hickman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317228516
Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism identifies an ethically and politically engaged philosophy of religion in eighteenth century Rational Dissent, particularly in the work of Richard Price (1723-1791), and in the radical thought of Mary Wollstonecraft. It traces their ethico-political account of reason, natural theology and human freedom back to seventeenth century Cambridge Platonism and thereby shows how popular histories of the philosophy of religion in modernity have been over-determined both by analytic philosophy of religion and by its critics. The eighteenth century has typically been portrayed as an age of reason, defined as a project of rationalism, liberalism and increasing secularisation, leading inevitably to nihilism and the collapse of modernity. Within this narrative, the Rational Dissenters have been accused of being the culmination of eighteenth-century rationalism in Britain, epitomising the philosophy of modernity. This book challenges this reading of history by highlighting the importance of teleology, deiformity, the immutability of goodness and the divinity of reason within the tradition of Rational Dissent, and it demonstrates that the philosophy and ethics of both Price and Wollstonecraft are profoundly theological. Price’s philosophy of political liberty, and Wollstonecraft’s feminism, both grounded in a Platonic conception of freedom, are perfectionist and radical rather than liberal. This has important implications for understanding the political nature of eighteenth-century philosophical theology: these thinkers represent not so much a shaking off of religion by secular rationality but a challenge to religious and political hegemony. By distinguishing Price and Wollstonecraft from other forms of rationalism including deism and Socinianism, this book takes issue with the popular division of eighteenth-century philosophy into rationalistic and empirical strands and, through considering the legacy of Cambridge Platonism, draws attention to an alternative philosophy of religion that lies between both empiricism and discursive inference.
Author : G.A. Rogers,J.-M. Vienne,Y.C. Zarka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401589338
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 time they ma intained the existence of eternal truths , and of a Good-in-itself , identical with Truth and Being, refusing to admit that freedom of conscience i m p li e d moral relativism. They were critics of dogmatism, and of the sectarian notion of "enthusiasm" as a source of illumination , on the grounds that both were disruptive of social harmony; they pleaded the cause of reason , in the hope that it could become the foundation of all human knowledge . Yet , for all that , they ma intained that a certain sort of mystical illumination lay at the heart of all true thought , and that human reason had validity only in virtue of i t s divine origin . They debated with Des cartes and took a keen interest in his mech- ism and his dualism ; they brought the atomistic theories of Democritus back into repute; and they sought to provide a detailed account of the causality link ing all phenomena.
Author : Samuel M. Kaldas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009426916
Samuel M. Kaldas' study explores the development and influence of the early modern philosophers known as the Cambridge Platonists.
Author : Tod E. Jones
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0761828745
The Cambridge Platonists is written with students and novice theologians in mind. It provides context as well as description, while outlining the most representative ideas of the school with clarity and brevity. This introduction will meet the needs of many readers, but for those beginning a study of the works of the Cambridge Platonists, the Eight Letters of Dr. Antony Tuckney and Dr. Benjamin Whichcote not only provide a logical starting point, in that they present the most characteristic ideas of Whichcote--arguably, the Cambridge Platonists' founding member--but also help to clarify what sets this school of religious thought apart from contemporary Puritan theology, as represented by Tuckney. This is the first complete edition of the Eight Letters since their original publication in 1753, now rendered accessible to readers without knowledge of classical languages.
Author : Charles Taliaferro,Alison J. Teply
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809140381
This anthology collects essays, poetry and treatises by a group of English philosophers from the Age of Reason who were devoted to the goodness of God and the spiritual importance of rationalism. These philosophers, known as the Cambridge Platonists, produced a movement in philosophical theology that flourished around Cambridge University in the seventeenth century and influenced not only Great Britain, but the United States and beyond. Their school of thought emphasized the great goodness of God, the compatibility of reason and faith, an integrated life of virtue, and the deep joy of living in concord with God. This volume introduces and presents the key documents of the Cambridge Platonist movement while setting its thinkers in their historical and religious context: the decades of turbulence and political crises surrounding the English Civil War.
Author : Charles Taliaferro,Alison J. Teply
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809140381
This anthology collects essays, poetry and treatises by a group of English philosophers from the Age of Reason who were devoted to the goodness of God and the spiritual importance of rationalism. These philosophers, known as the Cambridge Platonists, produced a movement in philosophical theology that flourished around Cambridge University in the seventeenth century and influenced not only Great Britain, but the United States and beyond. Their school of thought emphasized the great goodness of God, the compatibility of reason and faith, an integrated life of virtue, and the deep joy of living in concord with God. This volume introduces and presents the key documents of the Cambridge Platonist movement while setting its thinkers in their historical and religious context: the decades of turbulence and political crises surrounding the English Civil War.
Author : R. Crocker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401702171
This is the first modern biography to place Henry More’s (1614-1687) religious and philosophical preoccupations centre-stage, and to provide a coherent interpretation of his work from a consideration of his own writings, their contexts and aims. It is also the first study of More to exploit the full range of his prolific writings and a number of unknown manuscripts relating to his life. It contains an annotated handlist of his extant correspondence.
Author : Anna Baldwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521403085
This is the first comprehensive overview of the influence of Platonism on the English literary tradition, showing how English writers, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Wordsworth, Yeats, Pound and Iris Murdoch, used Platonic themes and images within their own imaginative work.
Author : Michael Erler,Jan Erik Heßler,Federico M. Petrucci
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108844000
Sheds light on the meaning, import and philosophical outlook of the notion of authority throughout the Platonist tradition.
Author : Douglas Hedley,Sarah Hutton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402064074
This collection of essays offers an overview of the range and breadth of Platonic philosophy in the early modern period. It examines philosophers of Platonic tradition, such as Cusanus, Ficino, and Cudworth. The book also addresses the impact of Platonism on major philosophers of the period, especially Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Shaftesbury and Berkeley.
Author : Ernest Trafford Campagnac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Cambridge Platonists
ISBN : UOM:39015011018853
Author : Aharon Lichtenstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : UOM:39015012293976