Cambridge Platonists
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Cambridge Platonists. A group of Anglican philosophical theologians who flourished between 1633 and 1688. Prominent among them were Benjamin Whichcote (1609–83), John Smith (1618–52), Henry More (1614–87), and Ralph Cudworth (1617–88). They found in Platonism and the Greek Fathers a rational philosophical structure that enabled them to distance themselves from contemporary enthusiasm, whether
Puritan or
High Church, by submitting the claims of revelation to the bar of reason by which we participate directly in God's
Logos (word, reason).
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The Cambridge Platonists: A Brief Introduction. With Eight Letters of Dr. Anthony Tuckney and Dr. Benjamin Whichcote
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...JONES, ED. The Cambridge Platonists: A Brief Introduction...Letters between the Platonist Benjamin Whichcote...conflict. Anchoring Cambridge Platonism in the...early leaders of the Cambridge Platonists, and Jones firmly...
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Cambridge Platonist Spirituality.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 5/3/2005; ; 700+ words
; Cambridge Platonist Spirituality Edited...the works of the Cambridge Platonists speak with particular...scholars consider the Cambridge Platonists philosophers and...an overview of Cambridge Platonist emphases, brief...
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The Cambridge Platonists in Philosophical Context: Politics, Metaphysics and Religion.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...and ZARKA, Y. C. eds. The Cambridge Platonists in Philosophical Context: Politics...comprehensively seventeenth century Cambridge Platonism, but gives pride of...put forward by thinkers in the Cambridge group are fully emphasized...
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Evidence and Faith: Philosophy and Religion since the Seventeenth Century
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...He opens by focusing on the "Cambridge Platonists," a remarkable group of seventeenth...suggests that we closely examine the Cambridge Platonists. Ralph Cudworth...they may know little about the Cambridge Platonists. In prominently displaying...
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Religious Currents and Cross-Currents: Essays on Early Modern Protestantism and the Protestant Enlightenment.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...interest to English Puritans and even to the Cambridge Platonists, and the Karaites eventually came to the attention...of more than passing interest to More and his Cambridge Platonist colleagues. Henry More's extensive writings...
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Corrigan, Kevin and Turner, John, eds.: Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...section is Guldmann Reydams-Schils' on differences between Platonists, especially Simplicius, and Stoics such as Epictetus concerning...154). R. Hedley analyzes the seventeenth-century Cambridge Platonist R. Cudworth, who countered what he believed to be the...
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Hutton, Sarah. Anne Conway: A Woman Philosopher.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...HUTTON, Sarah. Anne Conway: A Woman Philosopher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 271 pp. Cloth...shown by recent encyclopedia entries on her. A Cambridge Platonist, Lady Conway critiqued Descartes, Hobbes, and...
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Political Writings.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Political Writings. Ed. Patricia Springborg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 290 pp. $59.95...Locke's companion, and Ralph Cudworth, the Cambridge Platonist. Such affiliations and divergences help the reader...
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Sir Matthew Hale, 1609-1676: Law, Religion and Natural Philosophy.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...by Alan Cromartie. New York, Cambridge University Press. xii, 264...U.S. This monograph in the Cambridge Studies in Early Modem British...vitalists; like Henry More, the Cambridge Platonist. Although fascinating for their...
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Michael Losonsky. Enlightenment and Action from Descartes to Kant: Passionate Thought.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Seventeenth-Century News; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Descartes to Kant: Passionate Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xvii + 221 pp. $80.00...and then analyzes the affinity of Henry More, the Cambridge Platonist, with the very enthusiastic ideas against which he...
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Cambridge Platonists
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS. The Cambridge Platonists are so called because they were all educated at the University of Cambridge and were all indebted to Platonist philosophy. The senior member of the...
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Platonists, Cambridge
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Platonists, Cambridge, see Cambridge Platonists .
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Henry More
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...foremost representatives of the school of Cambridge Platonists . His writings emphasized the mystical...Henry More: The Rational Theology of a Cambridge Platonist (1962); G. R. Cragg, ed., The Cambridge Platonists (1985).
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Cudworth, Ralph
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Cudworth, Ralph (1617–88), Cambridge Platonist . From 1654 he was Master of Christ's College, Cambridge. Perhaps the most distinguished of the Cambridge Platonists, he opposed both religious dogmatism and the atheism...
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Smith, John
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Smith, John (1618–52), Cambridge Platonist . Under the influence of B. Whichcote , he became one of the leading Cambridge Platonists, upholding spiritual religion against the acrimonious theological disputes of the age.
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