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Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism - Reconceiving the Philosophy of Religion (Hardcover)
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Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism - Reconceiving the Philosophy of Religion (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion
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Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism identifies an
ethically and politically engaged philosophy of religion in
eighteenth century Rational Dissent, particularly in the work of
Richard Price (1723-1791), and in the radical thought of Mary
Wollstonecraft. It traces their ethico-political account of reason,
natural theology and human freedom back to seventeenth century
Cambridge Platonism and thereby shows how popular histories of the
philosophy of religion in modernity have been over-determined both
by analytic philosophy of religion and by its critics. The
eighteenth century has typically been portrayed as an age of
reason, defined as a project of rationalism, liberalism and
increasing secularisation, leading inevitably to nihilism and the
collapse of modernity. Within this narrative, the Rational
Dissenters have been accused of being the culmination of
eighteenth-century rationalism in Britain, epitomising the
philosophy of modernity. This book challenges this reading of
history by highlighting the importance of teleology, deiformity,
the immutability of goodness and the divinity of reason within the
tradition of Rational Dissent, and it demonstrates that the
philosophy and ethics of both Price and Wollstonecraft are
profoundly theological. Price's philosophy of political liberty,
and Wollstonecraft's feminism, both grounded in a Platonic
conception of freedom, are perfectionist and radical rather than
liberal. This has important implications for understanding the
political nature of eighteenth-century philosophical theology:
these thinkers represent not so much a shaking off of religion by
secular rationality but a challenge to religious and political
hegemony. By distinguishing Price and Wollstonecraft from other
forms of rationalism including deism and Socinianism, this book
takes issue with the popular division of eighteenth-century
philosophy into rationalistic and empirical strands and, through
considering the legacy of Cambridge Platonism, draws attention to
an alternative philosophy of religion that lies between both
empiricism and discursive inference.
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