| Description |
1 online resource (362 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Cambridge Platonism at the Origins of the Enlightenment -- 1 Cambridge Platonism: A Philosophical Introduction -- 2 The Cambridge Platonists: A Very Brief History -- 3 From the Latitude Men to the Cambridge Enlightenment: Changing Nomenclatures -- 4 From Campagnac to Taliaferro and Teply: Cambridge Platonist Anthologies Old and New -- Part II Historical Context and Philosophical Programme -- 5 Conversion and Original Insight -- 6 Political Platonism and Early Sermons on Rational Theology |
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7 The New Sect of Latitude Men: Religious Toleration and Moderation in Revolutionary and Restoration England -- 8 True Theism and the Philosophy of Religion -- Part III Cambridge Platonism in Early Modern Thought -- 9 The Critique of John Calvin: Divine Fate Immoral -- 10 The Critique of Thomas Hobbes: Mechanistic Fate -- 11 The Critique of René Descartes: Infinity and Nullibism -- 12 The Critique of Jacob Böhme: The Critiques of Enthusiasm and Alchemistic Pantheism -- 13 The Critique of Baruch de Spinoza: Atheism and Hylozoism -- Part IV Ontology and Metaphysics |
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14 The Character of Metaphysics -- 15 The Existence and Nature of God -- 16 Space -- 17 Nature -- 18 Body and Spirit -- Part V Epistemology and Ethics -- 19 Intuitive Vision and the First Principle of Divine Goodness -- 20 Libertarian Freedom -- 21 Theoretical Reason and Knowledge -- 22 Practical Reason and Virtue -- 23 The Sources of Political Power -- Part VI Rational Theology -- 24 Faith and Reason -- 25 The Fall of the Soul and the Resurrection of the Body -- 26 Soul-Making Theodicy -- 27 Christ's Sacrifice -- 28 The Conflagration and Restitution of All Things -- Part VII Epilogue |
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29 The Reception History of the Cambridge Platonists -- Suggested Further Reading -- A Brief Cambridge Platonist Prosopography -- Name Index -- Subject Index |
| Summary |
This anthology offers readers a unique, thematically structured compendium of their key texts, along with an extensive introduction and a detailed account of their legacy |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hengstermann, Christian
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| ISBN |
9781000851717 |
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1000851710 |
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