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Als Cambridger Platoniker (Cambridge Platonists) bezeichnet man eine einflussreiche Gruppe von englischen Philosophen und Theologen des 17. Jahrhunderts, die für einen neuplatonisch geprägten christlichen Platonismus zur Abwehr atheistischer und mechanistischer Lehren eintraten.
The Cambridge Platonists were an influential group of Platonist philosophers and Christian theologians at the University of Cambridge that existed during the 17th century. The leading figures were Ralph Cudworth and Henry More .
3. Okt. 2001 · The Cambridge Platonists were a group of English seventeenth-century thinkers associated with the University of Cambridge. The most important philosophers among them were Henry More (1614–1687) and Ralph Cudworth (1617–1688), both fellows of Christ’s College, Cambridge.
The Platonism of the Cambridge Platonists is a late product of the entire trajectory of Platonism from middle to Neo-Platonism through to Renaissance Platonism and contains elements from all these major phrases while integrating non-Platonic elements in an original early modern synthesis.
Cambridge Platonists, group of 17th-century English philosophic and religious thinkers who hoped to reconcile Christian ethics with Renaissance humanism, religion with the new science, and faith with rationality. Their leader was Benjamin Whichcote, who expounded in his sermons the Christian.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
My focus in this introduction to the Platonic-Cabbalism of the Cambridge Platonists will be their appropriation of the Hebrew term ‘ Cabbala ’ and how they used it to integrate ancient and modern traditions of philosophical and theological wisdom into their Christian Platonic world view.
The digital Cambridge Platonism Sourcebook consists of over 1,100,000 words of texts selected from across the oeuvre of the core group of Cambridge Platonists Anne Conway (1631-1679), Ralph Cudworth (1617-1688), Henry More (1614-1687), John Smith (1618-1652) and Benjamin Whichcote (1609-1683), making available both important printed and ...
