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The Cambridge Platonists in Philosophical Context: Politics, Metaphysics and Religion
Edited by G.A. Rogers, Edited by J.-M. Vienne, Edited by Y.C. Zarka
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The Cambridge Platonists were defenders of tolerance in the political as well as the moral sphere ; they held that practical j u d g e m e n t came down in the last instance to individual conscience ; and they laid the foundations of our modern conceptions of conscience and liberty. But at the same time they ma intained the existence of eternal truths , and of a Good-in-itself , identical with Truth and Being, refusing to admit that freedom of conscience i m p li e d moral relativism. They were critics of dogmatism, and of the sectarian notion of ""enthusiasm"" as a source of illumination , on the grounds that both were disruptive of social harmony; they pleaded the cause of reason , in the hope that it could become the foundation of all human knowledge . Yet , for all that , they ma intained that a certain sort of mystical illumination lay at the heart of all true thought , and that human reason had validity only in virtue of i t s divine origin . They debated with Des cartes and took a keen interest in his mech- ism and his dualism ; they brought the atomistic theories of Democritus back into repute; and they sought to provide a detailed account of the causality link ing all phenomena.
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Publisher | Springer
Published date | 8 Dec 2010
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 258
Dimensions | 240 x 160 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-9-0481-4844-8
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BISAC | philosophy / history & surveys / general
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