226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book illustrates the vitality and diversity of the seventeenth-century philosophers now known as the “Cambridge Platonists”, focusing chiefly on Henry More, Ralph Cudworth and two women associated with the group — Anne Conway and Damaris Masham. The “Cambridge Platonists” made significant contributions to early modern philosophy. Their Platonist sobriquet obscures the fact that they were at... Read more
Introduction
Sarah Hutton
1. Patrides, Plotinus and the Cambridge Platonists
Stephen R. L. Clark
2. Descartes and More on the infinity of the world
Igor Agostini
3. ‘In human shape to become the very beast!’– Henry More on animals
Cecilia Muratori
4. Henry More as reader of Marcus Aurelius
John Sellars
5. Henry More on spirits, light, and immaterial extension
Andreas Blank
6. Cudworth on types of consciousness
Vili Lähteenmäki
7. Cudworth on superintellectual instinct as inclination to the good
David Leech
8. Time, space, and process in Anne Conway
Emily Thomas
9. Three texts on the Kabbalah: More, Wachter, Leibniz, and the philosophy of the Hebrews
Mogens Lærke
10. Damaris Cudworth, Lady Masham. Between Platonism and enlightenment
Sarah Hutton
Sarah Hutton
1. Patrides, Plotinus and the Cambridge Platonists
Stephen R. L. Clark
2. Descartes and More on the infinity of the world
Igor Agostini
3. ‘In human shape to become the very beast!’– Henry More on animals
Cecilia Muratori
4. Henry More as reader of Marcus Aurelius
John Sellars
5. Henry More on spirits, light, and immaterial extension
Andreas Blank
6. Cudworth on types of consciousness
Vili Lähteenmäki
7. Cudworth on superintellectual instinct as inclination to the good
David Leech
8. Time, space, and process in Anne Conway
Emily Thomas
9. Three texts on the Kabbalah: More, Wachter, Leibniz, and the philosophy of the Hebrews
Mogens Lærke
10. Damaris Cudworth, Lady Masham. Between Platonism and enlightenment
Sarah Hutton
Biography
Sarah Hutton is Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of York, UK. The leading scholar on the Cambridge Platonists, her publications include Anne Conway. A Woman Philosopher (2004) and British Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century (2015). She is President of the International Society for Intellectual History.
