Revisioning Cambridge Platonism: Sources and Legacy

Douglas Hedley is Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge. He has previously held Fellowships at the Universities of Notre Dame (2103-14) Muenster (2017) and was visiting Professor at the University of McGill in 2018.David Leech is a Lecturer at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published widely on aspects of Cambridge Platonism, including the monograph “The Hammer of the Cartesians: Henry More’s Philosophy of Spirit and the Origins of Modern Atheism.” Peeters Publishers, Leuven, 2013.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Dii Medioxumi and the Place of Theurgy in the Philosophy of Henry More.- 3. Cambridge Platonism(s): John Sherman and Peter Sterry.- 4. “A Philosopher at Randome”: Translating Jacob Böhme in Seventeenth-century Cambridge.- 5. Plotinus in Verses: The Epic of Emanation in Henry More’s Psychozoia.- 6. The Neoplatonic Hermeneutics of Ralph Cudworth.- 7. Cudworth and the English Debate on the Trinity.- 8. “Think on these things”: Benjamin Whichcote and Henry Hallywell on Philippians 4:8 as a guide to Deiformity.- 9. Giving Locke Some Latitude: Locke’s Theological Influences from Great Tew to the Cambridge Platonists.- 10. Mixing Politics with the Pulpit: Eternal Immutable Morality and Richard Price’s Political Radicalism.- 11. “Have Ye Not Heard That We Cannot Serve Two Masters?”: The Platonism of Mary Wollstonecraft.- 12. “This is not quite fair, Master More!”: Coleridge and the Cambridge Platonists.- 13. “A track pursuing not untrod before”: Wordsworth, Plato, and theCambridge Platonists.- 14. The Legacy of a ‘Living Library’: On the Reception of John Smith.- 15. Between Theodicy and Apologetics. Plato as "An Human Preface of the Gospel": Joseph Maistre and Simone Weil in the Wake of Cudworth.