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	Cambridge Platonists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cambridge Platonists were a group of philosophers at Cambridge University, England in the middle of the 17th century (between 1633 and 1688).
		To the Cambridge Platonists, religion and reason were always in harmony, and reality was comprised not of sensation, but of "intelligible forms" that exist behind perception.
		As a Platonist, his important works were Manual of Ethics (1666), the Divine Dialogues (1668), and the Manual of Metaphysics (1671).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cambridge_Platonists (460 words)

	The Cambridge Platonists
		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.
		The Platonist principle that mind precedes the world lies at the foundation of Cudworth's epistemology which is discussed in A Treatise of Eternal and Immutable Morality.
		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 (4422 words)

	Platonism in Metaphysics
		Thus, platonists argue, if there is no other explanation of this fact (i.e., the fact of resemblance) that is as good as their explanation (i.e., the one that appeals to properties), then we are justified in believing in properties.
		One way to argue for a platonistic view of properties and relations is first to use the argument of section 4.2 to argue for a platonistic view of propositions, and then to claim that this argument already contains an argument for properties and relations, because properties and relations are components of propositions.
		In connection with conceptualism, platonists of this sort could claim that the argument given in section 4.2 for thinking that ‘that’-clauses don't refer to mentalese sentences suggests that propositions (which are the referents of ‘that’-clauses) could not be made up of properties that exist in our heads.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/platonism (15871 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Cambridge Platonists
		The Cambridge Platonists were a group of seventeenth-century English philosophers and theologians attached to various Cambridge colleges.
		The Cambridge Platonists were averse to the opposition of the spritual to the rational, the supernatural to the natural, and grace to nature.
		The Cambridge Platonists influenced a number of thinkers, such as John Locke, Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftsbury, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and Isaac Newton.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=157 (621 words)

	Cambridge Platonists -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Cambridge Platonists were a group of divines at (A university in England) Cambridge University in (A division of the United Kingdom) England in the middle of the 17th century (between 1633 and 1688).
		On the one hand, the narrow dogmatism of the (Adheres to strict religious principles; opposed to sensual pleasures) Puritan divines, with their anti-rationalist (if not anti-intellectual) demands, were, they felt, immoral and incorrect.
		They believed that reason is the proper judge of all disagreements, and so they advocated dialogue between the Puritans and the (Click link for more info and facts about High Churchmen) High Churchmen.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/cambridge_platonists.htm (579 words)

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		On a final, slightly silly note that defines it nicely; if a dinner party was being put on the Sophists would sit down at a table and talk with the Platonists about anything because they would be willing to listen to their point of view.
		The Platonists are a different animal though, they believe wholly in good vs. evil, right vs. wrong.
		Platonists believe that there is an ultimate truth somewhere out there and they will work to find it.
	pubpages.unh.edu /~cchanson/sophists.doc (963 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Neo-Platonism
		They are from the pen of a Christian Platonist, a disciple of Proclus, probably an immediate pupil of that teacher, as is clear from the fact that they embody, not only Proclus's ideas, but even lengthy passages from his writings.
		It was not until the rise of Humanism in the fifteenth century that the works of Plotinus and Proclus were translated and studied with that zeal which characterized the Platonists of the Renaissance.
		The active rejection of Materialism by the Cambridge Platonists in the seventeenth century carried with it a revival of interest in the neo-Platonists.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10742b.htm (3954 words)

	Bygone Beliefs - XII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The term "Cambridge Platonists" is, perhaps, less appropriate than that of "Latitudinarians," which latter name emphasises their broad-mindedness (even if it carries with it something of disapproval).
		BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE was born in 1609, at Whichcote Hall, in the parish of Stoke, Shropshire.
		The Cambridge Platonists were not ascetics; their moral doctrine was one of temperance.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/phil/psychology/BygoneBeliefs/chap13.html (2396 words)

	Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is the opinion of the Platonists, the ablest and most esteemed of their philosophers, with whom we therefore chose to debate this question,-whether the worship of a number of gods is of any service toward obtaining blessedness in the future life.
		This is the opinion of the Platonists and Aristotelians; for Aristotle was Plato's disciple, and the founder of the Peripatetic school.
		According to the Platonists, then, the gods, who occupy the highest place, enjoy eternal blessedness, or blessed eternity; men, who occupy the lowest, a mortal misery, or a miserable mortality; and the demons, who occupy the mean, a miserable eternity, or an eternal misery.
	www.ccel.org /fathers2/NPNF1-02/npnf1-02-15.htm (7211 words)

	Plato
		A great variety of thought is included, and controversy among different kinds of self-avowed Platonists is as frequent, as profound, and as vehemently expressed as that among, for instance, the different kinds of nineteenth-century socialists, or twentieth-century Marxists, or, for that matter, the many species of American Baptists.
		Platonist frames of thought draw a dividing line between two realms.
		(Not surprisingly, the masculine gender is seen as the lesser imperfection.) Some later Platonists (one thinks in particular of some of the "Chartreans" and of early Renaissance figures such as the prolific Florentine, Marsiglio Ficino) elaborate considerably on the implications of Plato's images of androgyny and gendering.
	www.warren-wilson.edu /~dmycoff/plato.html (2738 words)

	Richard Rorty's Platonists, Positivists, and Pragmatists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the nineteenth century, this opposition crystallised into one between "the transcendental philosophy" and "the empirical philosophy," between the "Platonists" and the "positivists." Such terms were, even then, hopelessly vague, but every intellectual knew roughly where he stood in relation to the two movements.
		The life of such inhabitants of Snow's "literary culture," whose highest hope is to grasp their time in thought, appears to the Platonist and the positivist as a life not worth living-because it is a life which leaves nothing permanent behind.
		In contrast, the positivist and the Platonist hope to leave behind true propositions, propositions which have been shown true once and for all-inheritances for the human race unto all generations.
	www.marxists.org /reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/rorty.htm (10271 words)

	Platonists
		It will be the first comprehensive collection to be made of all the evidence dealing with the external lives of these philosophers from the founding of the Academy up to its alleged 'dissolution' in 529 AD.
		It is envisaged that 'Platonists in Athens' will last for five years, that interim papers will be published and that a final volume or series of volumes will be published at the end of the project.
		An introductory and exploratory seminar for the IIHSA Project 'Platonists in Athens' was held on the 4th and 5th September 2000 in the Museum of the City of Athens (Plateia Klauthmonos).
	www.ucc.ie /iihsa/platonists.html (356 words)

	Orpheus the Theologian and Renaissance Platonists
		"Orpheus the Theologian and Renaissance Platonists," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 16 (1953): 100-120.
		Christ] is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven and that are in the earth,.
		Secondly, there is the context in which the Orphic fragments were found: Clement and Eusebius, with their dangerous Platonic expositions of the Trinity, and Proclus, with his multiple interpretation of pagan gods as metaphysical and natural principles.
	phoenixandturtle.net /excerptmill/Walker2.htm (1582 words)

	Augustine's Confessions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Throughout his later life Augustine consistently attacked the Platonists on the grounds that they reject Christ as the medium through which they can ascend to the "blessed fatherland." Relying on their own powers, the best that these philosophers can do is glimpse the happy life from afar; they can never rest tranquilly in it.
		His own natural pride, magnified still further by his reading of the books of the Platonists, ensured that this vision could never be sustained.
		As Starnes has correctly observed, the entire context of the description of his "vision" is placed squarely in the economy of pride-the pride of the Neo-Platonists, the pride of the man who gave him the books to read and his own pride at the time he received them.
	www.molloy.edu /academic/philosophy/SOPHIA/Augustine/conf7_notes.htm (1602 words)

	Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chapter 1.-That the Platonists Themselves Have Determined that God Alone Can Confer Happiness Either on Angels or Men, But that It Yet Remains a Question Whether Those Spirits Whom They Direct Us to Worship, that We May Obtain Happiness, Wish Sacrifice to Be Offered to Themselves, or to the One God Only.
		It was this serpent which was preserved in memory of this event, and was afterwards worshipped by the mistaken people as an idol, and was destroyed by the pious and God-fearing king Hezekiah, much to his credit.
		These miracles, and many others of the same nature, which it were tedious to mention, were wrought for the purpose of commending the worship of the one true God, and prohibiting the worship of a multitude of false gods.
	www.godrules.net /library/fathers/nf02s16.htm (7410 words)

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		John Worthington’s statement sometime after the Restoration that the Cambridge Platonists looked to ‘the ancient and wisest philosophers, as also the primitive fathers, the Greek especially’, is an acknowledgment of a development staggering in its implications.
		Protestants had of course repeatedly pleaded for a return to ‘the primitive fathers’, but it was always understood that Origen should be on the whole avoided and that the other Greek Fathers should be studied in the light of Tertullian and especially St. Augustine.
		The Cambridge Platonists agreed with Clement of Alexandria that the transcendently clear vision of the Divine is ‘the privilege of intensely loving souls’.
	faculty.roosevelt.edu /schroeder/1630CE.htm (2201 words)

	AllRefer.com - Cambridge Platonists (Philosophy, Terms And Concepts) - Encyclopedia
		Cambridge Platonists, group of English philosophers, centered at Cambridge Univ. in the latter half of the 17th cent.
		In reaction to the mechanical philosophy of Thomas Hobbes this school revived certain Platonic and Neoplatonic ideas.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Cambridge Platonists
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/CambrdgPlt.html (248 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.08.19
		Not all Hellenistic Academics were sceptics, but the majority were, and all of them after Arcesilaus were deeply concerned with the questions of whether (or to what extent) to suspend judgment, and whether (or to what extent) human beings are capable of katalêpsis, of the certain grasp of an object.
		On this story, the middle Platonists felt they could ignore the epistemological issues raised by the New Academics, and devote themselves to extracting a positive (increasingly elaborate and increasingly "otherworldly") systematic doctrine out of Plato's texts.
		However, his book is better taken not as an argument that "Academic" concerns remained alive for some middle Platonists (which no longer needs to be argued) but as an exploration of some interesting ways that some middle Platonists develop these concerns in their philosophizing and in their attitudes toward Socrates, Plato, and the Academy.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2003/2003-08-19.html (4445 words)

	Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The old saint Simplicianus, afterwards bishop of Milan, used to tell me that a certain Platonist was in the habit of saying that this opening passage of the holy gospel, entitled, According to John, should be written in letters of gold, and hung up in all churches in the most conspicuous place.
		For the Platonists seemed to themselves to allege an adequate reason for their rejection of this doctrine, when they affirmed that nothing could be everlasting which had not always existed.
		For neither Porphyry nor any Platonists can despise divination and prediction, even of things that pertain to this life and earthly matters, though they justly despise ordinary soothsaying and the divination that is connected with magical arts.
	www.ccel.org /fathers2/NPNF1-02/npnf1-02-16.htm (13454 words)

	THE DRAGON OF THE ALCHEMISTS-CHAPTER TWO-A GENERATION OF PLATONISTS
		And moreover, in examining the life of dreams, one may cry brother to all who attempt to set dream images and symbols in definite order and relation: therefore, whether they worked in truth or in error, it is well to take some regard to their system.
		The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were Platonist rather than Aristotelian in imagination and philosophy.
		In that day a great attempt was made to reassemble and bring to common use the myths of the classical world and to set them in the current of thought, side by side with the traditions living in the tales of the folk and their lore, weaving the whole into one imaginative body of art.
	www.banger.com /carter/dragon02.html (1081 words)

	CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS - LoveToKnow Article on CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They tend always to mysticism and the comtemplation of things transcendental.
		In spite of inaccuracy and the lack of criti~al capacity in dealing with their authorities both ancient and modern, the Cambridge Platonists exercised a valuable influence on English theology and thought in general.
		Their chief contributions to thought were Cudworths theory of the plastic nature of God, Mores elaborate mysticism, Norriss appreciation of Malebranche, Glanvills conception of scepticism as an aid to Faith,and, in a less degree, the harmony of Faith and Reason elaborated by Culverwel.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CAMBRIDGE_PLATONISTS.htm (381 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Cambridge Platonists
		Cambridge Platonists, school of English Christian philosophers, centered at the University of Cambridge, in the late 17th century.
		Puritanism : political and social role in United Kingdom : Cambridge Platonists: Cambridge, University of
		A reaction took place, however, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603), when Cambridge became a stronghold of Puritanism.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Cambridge_Platonists.html (132 words)

	Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. II
		Chapter 5.-That It is Especially with the Platonists that We Must Carry on Our Disputations on Matters of Theology, Their Opinions Being Preferable to Those of All Other Philosophers.
		For the Greeks, whose tongue holds the highest place among the languages of the Gentiles, are loud in their praises of these writings; and the Latins, taken with their excellence, or their renown, have studied them more heartily than other writings, and, by translating them into our tongue, have given them greater celebrity and notoriety.
		Let the Platonists, therefore, explain these things to us, since, following the opinion of their master, they think that all the gods are good and honorable, and friendly to the virtues of the wise, holding it unlawful to think otherwise concerning any of the gods.
	www.bible.ca /history/fathers/NPNF1-02/npnf1-02-14.htm (10256 words)

	AW: [aiethics] What are humans made of? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alicebot AI Ethics Committee - !http://www.alicebot.org Something I skimmed over: you say that it is the truth that there is no = absolute truth, that there is only relative truth.
		You and Platonists = and Kantians alike admit your contradiction.
		All were Platonists, all were sacrificial, all were = collectivists and all were SUBJECTIVISTS.
	www.alicebot.org /pipermail/alicebot-aiethics/2001-June/000063.html (366 words)

	Bygone Beliefs
		Conscience, and the Scriptures, these, taught the Cambridge Platonists, testify of one another and are the true guides which alone a man should follow.
		But true reason is not merely sensuous, and the only way whereby it may be gained is by the purification of the self from the desires that draw it away from the Source of all Reason.
		Knowledge be not attended with Humility and a deep sense of Self-penury and Self-emptiness, we may easily fall short of that True Knowledge of God which we seem to aspire after."[1] Right Reason, however, they taught, is the product of the sight of the soul, the true mystic vision.
	www.sacred-texts.com /etc/bb/bb13.htm (2355 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Plato (428 BCE)
		To render the world of Ideas more acceptable to Christians, the Patristic Platonists from Justin Martyr to St. Augustine maintained that the world exists in the mind of God, and that this was what Plato meant.
		These Christian Platonists underestimated Aristotle,; whom they generally referred to as an "acute" logician whose philosophy favoured the heretical opponents of orthodox Christianity.
		The Cambridge Platonists of the seventeenth century, such as Cudworth, Henry More, Cumberland, and Glanville, reacting against humanistic naturalism, "spiritualized Puritanism" by restoring the foundations of conduct to principles intuitionally known and independent of self-interest.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=19 (13045 words)

	Schola Great Books 2 Class Forum
		Augaustine chose not follow this teaching because they did not belive the soul was immortal.
		Because the works of the Platonists helped to prepare him to seek for the “real” truth.
		The Platonists do not supply men with a path to salvation.
	www.network54.com /Forum/post?forumid=108878&messageid=1110949322 (436 words)

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