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The Cambridge Platonists in Philosophical Context - Politics, Metaphysics and Religion (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
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The Cambridge Platonists in Philosophical Context - Politics, Metaphysics and Religion (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees, 150
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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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