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Herbert of Cherbury (Lord) and the Cambridge Platonists — Lord Herbert of Cherbury and the Cambridge Platonists Sarah Hutton The philosophy of Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582/3–1648) and of the Cambridge Platonists exemplifies the continuities of seventeenth century thought with Renaissance philosophy.… … History of philosophy
Cambridge Platonists — 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… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Cambridge Platonists — The Cambridge Platonists were a group of philosophers at Cambridge University in the middle of the 17th century (between 1633 and 1688). Programme The Cambridge Platonists were reacting to two pressures. On the one hand, the dogmatism of the… … Wikipedia
Cambridge Platonists — Group of 17th century British philosophic and religious thinkers. Led by Benjamin Whichcote (1609–1683), it included Ralph Cudworth and Henry More (1614–1687) at Cambridge and Joseph Glanvill (1636–1680) at Oxford. Educated as Puritans, they… … Universalium
Cambridge Platonists — A small group of mid17th century thinkers centred on Cambridge, whose members included Cudworth, Henry More, and Whichcote . The problems they addressed included the rise of low church ‘enthusiasm’, the increasing influence of the Godless system… … Philosophy dictionary
CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS — a THEOLOGICAL movement which flourished at the University of Cambridge in the seventeenth century which advocated religious toleration … Concise dictionary of Religion
Cambridge Platonists — Кембриджские платоники … Вестминстерский словарь теологических терминов
Neo-Platonism — Eyjólfur K.Emilsson GENERAL INTRODUCTION Neo Platonism is usually defined as the philosophy of Plotinus, who lived in the third century AD, and his followers in the pagan Graeco Roman world in late antiquity. The most significant philosophers… … History of philosophy
mathematics, philosophy of — Branch of philosophy concerned with the epistemology and ontology of mathematics. Early in the 20th century, three main schools of thought called logicism, formalism, and intuitionism arose to account for and resolve the crisis in the foundations … Universalium
Platonism — Platonist, n., adj. /playt n iz euhm/, n. 1. the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers. 2. a Platonic doctrine or saying. 3. the belief that physical objects are impermanent representations of unchanging Ideas, and that the Ideas… … Universalium
