Samuel M. Kaldas (The University of Sydney and The University of Notre Dame Australia)

Cambridge Platonists and Early Modern Philosophy (eBook, PDF)

Inventing the Philosophy of Religion

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Often neglected by historians today, the seventeenth-century philosophers known as the Cambridge Platonists were recognised in their time as some of the most influential and controversial philosophers in England. Whereas most studies of the Cambridge Platonists have discussed their later careers, this book focuses on their early, formative years at Cambridge during the English Civil Wars. Samuel M. Kaldas explores how the Cambridge Platonists addressed issues central to philosophy of religion as we know it today through their engagement with early seventeenth-century religious controversies about predestination, the character and nature of God, and the role of reason in religion. His study serves as an accessible introduction to both the Cambridge Platonists, and to English religious controversies that contributed to the birth of the modern philosophy of religion. At the same time, Kaldas provides context for and fresh insights into the Cambridge Platonists' intellectual development and the coherence of their thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2024
• ISBN-13: 9781009426947
• Artikelnr.: 72463036

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.