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Klappentext This volume contains selected discourses chosen to illustrate the tenets characteristic of the influential movement known as Cambridge Platonism. Zusammenfassung This volume contains the selected discourses of four seventeenth-century philosophers! carefully chosen to illustrate the tenets characteristic of the influential movement known as Cambridge Platonism. The sermons are reprinted from the original texts and fully annotated with comparisons and references to a wide range of works. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; A note on method; Biographical sketches; A reading list; 1. 'The High and Aiery Hills of Platonisme': an introduction to the Cambridge Platonists; 2. 'The Use of Reason in Matters of Religion' - Benjamin Whichcote; 3. 'The Manifestation of Christ and the Deification of Man' - Benjamin Whichcote; 4. 'The Unity of the Church maintained by sincere Christians' - Benjamin Whichcote; 5. 'A Sermon preached before the House of Commons' - Ralph Cudworth; 6. 'The True Way or Method of attaining to Divine Knowledge' - John Smith; 7. 'The Excellency and Nobleness of True Religion' - John Smith; 8. 'The Purification of a Christian Man's Soul' - Henry More; 9. An Antidote against Atheism, Books I-II - Henry More; 10. 'The Digression concerning the Plastick Life of Nature, or an Artificial, Orderly and Methodical Nature' - Ralph Cudworth; Appendix: selections from Whichcote's Moral and Religious Aphorisms; Index.
