An Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists: Sources and Commentary [Paperback]

This anthology offers readers a unique, thematically structured compendium of their key texts, along with an extensive introduction and a detailed account of their legacy.

1. Cambridge Platonism: A Philosophical Introduction  2. The Cambridge Platonists: A Very Brief History  3. From the Latitude Men to the Cambridge Enlightenment: Anthologizing the Cambridge Platonists  4. From Campagnac to Taliaferro and Teply: Cambridge Platonist Anthologies Old and New  5. Conversion and Original Insight  6. Political Platonism and Early Sermons on Rational Theology  6*. The New Sect of Latitude Men: Religious Toleration and Moderation in Revolutionary and Restoration England 7. True Theism and the Philosophy of Religion  8. The Critique of John Calvin: Divine Fate Immoral  9. The Critique of Thomas Hobbes: Mechanistic Fate  10. The Critique of Ren? Descartes: Infinity and Nullibism  11. The Critique of Jacob B?hme: The Critiques of Enthusiasm and Alchemistic Pantheism  12. The Critique of Baruch de Spinoza: Atheism and Hylozoism  13. The Character of Metaphysics  14. The Existence and Nature of God  15. Space  16. Nature  17. Body and Spirit  18. Intuitive Vision and the First Principle of Divine Goodness  19. Libertarian Freedom  20. Theoretical Reason and Knowledge  21. Practical Reason and Virtue  22. The Sources of Political Power  23. Faith and Reason  24. The Fall of the Soul and the Resurrection of the Body  25. Soul-Making Theodicy  26. Christs Sacrifice  27. The Conflagration and Restitution of All Things  28. The Reception History of the Cambridge Platonists

Douglas Hedley is Professor of the Philosophy of Religion in the Faculty of Divinity at thl³»