书目名称 | The Cambridge Platonists in Philosophical Context |
副标题 | Politics, Metaphysic |
编辑 | G. A. J. Rogers,J. M. Vienne,Y. C. Zarka |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/906/905640/905640.mp4 |
丛书名称 | International Archives of the History of Ideas‘ Archives internationales d‘histoire des idées |
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描述 | The Cambridge Platonists were defenders of tolerance in the political as well as the moral sphere ; they held that practical j u d g e m e n t came down in the last instance to individual conscience ; and they laid the foundations of our modern conceptions of conscience and liberty. But at the same time they ma intained the existence of eternal truths , and of a Good-in-itself , identical with Truth and Being, refusing to admit that freedom of conscience i m p li e d moral relativism. They were critics of dogmatism, and of the sectarian notion of "enthusiasm" as a source of illumination , on the grounds that both were disruptive of social harmony; they pleaded the cause of reason , in the hope that it could become the foundation of all human knowledge . Yet , for all that , they ma intained that a certain sort of mystical illumination lay at the heart of all true thought , and that human reason had validity only in virtue of i t s divine origin . They debated with Des cartes and took a keen interest in his mech- ism and his dualism ; they brought the atomistic theories of Democritus back into repute; and they sought to provide a detailed account of the causality link ing all phenom |
出版日期 | Book 1997 |
关键词 | Hobbes; Moral; Plato; Religion; René Descartes; Thomas Hobbes; politics |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8933-8 |
isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-4844-8 |
isbn_ebook | 978-94-015-8933-8Series ISSN 0066-6610 Series E-ISSN 2215-0307 |
issn_series | 0066-6610 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1997 |