Samuel M Kaldas

The Cambridge Platonists and Early Modern Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

"The seventeenth-century philosophers known as the Cambridge Platonists were recognised in their time as some of England's most influential and controversial philosophers. In this study, Samuel M. Kaldas explores the intellectual contributions of the group, which serve as the foundation for the modern field of philosophy of religion"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9781009426916
• ISBN-10: 1009426915
• Artikelnr.: 69674151

Autorenporträt

Samuel Kaldas is a historian of philosophy and philosopher of religion based in Sydney, Australia. He has held full-time research fellowships at the University of Sydney and Fordham University's Orthodox Christian Studies Centre, and lectures widely on philosophy, theology and patristics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Learned and ingenious men; 2. 'Plato and His Scholars': Early Cambridge
Platonism; 3. Puritanism and predestination; 4. Cambridge Platonists versus
Cambridge Calvinists: John Goodwin and the 1651 Whichcote-Tuckney
correspondence; Part II. Rival Conceptions of God and Goodness: The
Platonic Anti-Calvinism of the Cambridge Platonists: 5. Goodness and the
will of God: Moral realism versus voluntarism; 6. Is God an arbitrary
tyrant? Platonic participation versus the Decree of Reprobation; 7.
Righteousness real and imagined: Participation and deification versus
imputed righteousness; Part III. The Religious Epistemology of the
Cambridge Platonists: 8. Reason and the mind of God: Platonic religious
epistemology; 9. Deification as spiritual sensation: The epistemology of
religious experience; 10. Liberty, violence and practical reason: Moral
obligation and the law of love; 11. Conclusion: The Cambridge Platonists as
early modern Christian Platonists.