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THE CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS IN PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT
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G. A. J. Rogers (Editor), J-M Vienne (Editor), Y. C. Zarka (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£149.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9048148448 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789048148448 |
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SPRINGER |
| Pub. date: |
7 December, 2010 |
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1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 1997 |
| Series: |
International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales 150 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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biography |
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Netherlands |
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Springer |
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