An Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists (eBook, ePUB)

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Redaktion: Hedley, Douglas; Hengstermann, Christian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000851717
• Artikelnr.: 68610968

Autorenporträt

Douglas Hedley is Professor of the Philosophy of Religion in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Clare College. He is the author of Coleridge, Philosophy and Religion (2000) and a trilogy on the Religious Imagination, and has edited various volumes including Revisioning Cambridge Platonism (2019). He was the Principal Investigator of an AHRC grant, "The Cambridge Platonists at the Origins of Enlightenment, 2016¿2019." Christian Hengstermann is Associate Lecturer in Classics at Wuppertal University in Germany and Member of the Cambridge Centre of the Study of Platonism. He is the author of Origenes und der Ursprung der Freiheitsmetaphysik (2016) and has edited various volumes, including "That Miracle of the Christian World": Origenism and Christian Platonism in Henry More (2020) and The History of the Religious Imagination in Christian Platonism (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Cambridge Platonism: A Philosophical Introduction 2. The Cambridge Platonists: A Very Brief History 3. From the Latitude Men to the Cambridge Enlightenment: Anthologizing the Cambridge Platonists 4. From Campagnac to Taliaferro and Teply: Cambridge Platonist Anthologies Old and New 5. Conversion and Original Insight 6. Political Platonism and Early Sermons on Rational Theology 6*. The New Sect of Latitude Men: Religious Toleration and Moderation in Revolutionary and Restoration England 7. True Theism and the Philosophy of Religion 8. The Critique of John Calvin: Divine Fate Immoral 9. The Critique of Thomas Hobbes: Mechanistic Fate 10. The Critique of René Descartes: Infinity and Nullibism 11. The Critique of Jacob Böhme: The Critiques of Enthusiasm and Alchemistic Pantheism 12. The Critique of Baruch de Spinoza: Atheism and Hylozoism 13. The Character of Metaphysics 14. The Existence and Nature of God 15. Space 16. Nature 17. Body and Spirit 18. Intuitive Vision and the First Principle of Divine Goodness 19. Libertarian Freedom 20. Theoretical Reason and Knowledge 21. Practical Reason and Virtue 22. The Sources of Political Power 23. Faith and Reason 24. The Fall of the Soul and the Resurrection of the Body 25. Soul-Making Theodicy 26. Christ's Sacrifice 27. The Conflagration and Restitution of All Things 28. The Reception History of the Cambridge Platonists