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  The Cambridge Platonists
The Cambridge Platonists were a group of English seventeenth-century thinkers associated with the University of Cambridge.
Like the other Cambridge Platonists Culverwell emphasises the freedom of the will and proposes an innatist epistemology, according to which the mind is furnished with ‘clear and indelible Principles’ and reason an ‘intellectual lamp’ placed in the soul by God to enable it to understand God's will promulgated in the law of nature.
Among the immediate philosophical heirs of the Cambridge Platonists, mention should be made of Henry More's pupil, Anne Conway (1631-1679), one of the very few female philosophers of the period.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/cambridge-platonists   (4399 words)

  
 CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND D... - Online Information article about CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND D...
1625), created him earl of Cambridge, a title which came to his son and successor James, 3rd marquess and first duke of Hamilton (d.
Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
1671), were actually created in 'succession dukes of Cambridge, but both died in childhood.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /CAL_CAR/CAMBRIDGE_EARLS_AND_DUKES_OF.html   (749 words)

  
 Ralph Cudworth [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In 1644 he was appointed master of Clare Hall by the Parliamentary visitors, and a year later was made regius professor of Hebrew, a position which his knowledge of Jewish literature and antiquities made congenial to him.
In spite of his close relations with the Commonwealth government, he was undisturbed at the Restoration, and was even presented in 1662 to the rectory of Ashwell in Herefordshire by Sheldon, archbishop of Canterbury, and made a prebendary of Gloucester in 1678.
As a philosopher he was not a pure Platonist; in metaphysics, indeed, he followed Plato and the Neoplatonists, but in natural philosophy the Atomists, and in that of religion Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
www.iep.utm.edu /c/cudwor.htm   (516 words)

  
 Anthony Collins
Anthony Collins was born in Heston, Middlesex on June 21, 1676 into a family of lawyers.
He went to Eton and then King's College, Cambridge in 1693.
Though he had not graduated from Cambridge, Collins went to the Middle Temple in 1694 to study law.
www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /entries/collins   (11112 words)

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