Cambridge Platonists

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 Conwayand Damaris Masham. It will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and Philosophy graduates.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Patrides, Plotinus and the Cambridge Platonists 2. Descartes and More on the in¿nity of the world 3. 'In human shape to become the very beast!'- Henry More on animals 4. Henry More as reader of Marcus Aurelius 5. Henry More on Spirits, Light, and Immaterial Extension 6. Cudworth on Types of Consciousness 7. Cudworth on superintellectual instinct as inclination to the good 8. Time, space, and process in Anne Conway 9. Three texts on the Kabbalah: More, Wachter, Leibniz, and the philosophy of the Hebrews 10. Damaris Cudworth, Lady Masham. Between Platonism and Enlightenment

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Hutton
• Assisted by: Sarah Hutton (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032521695
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3252169-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge