The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism Is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated: With a (Monotheismes Et Philosophie, #27) (Cambridge Platonists S., #1)

by Thomas Birch and Ralph Cudworth

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The Cambridge Platonists occupy a special place in seventeenth century European intellectual history for they were active precisely at that moment when the modern world view was being created and to which they were important contributors. Their concern was to foster new knowledge, as exemplified by the natural sciences, from within a religious and more specifically a Christian neoplatonic framework. Their enemy was the materialism of Thomas Hobbes and the slide towards materialism which they also came to detect in Descartes and other contemporaries. Through their writings they encouraged an atmosphere in which both the natural sciences and religious...Read more
  • ISBN10 1289931380
  • ISBN13 9781289931384
  • Publish Date 5 October 2013 (first published 30 November 1994)
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Imprint Nabu Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 694
  • Language English