Directory of Cambridge Platonism Resources

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A 17th-century school of English philosophical and theological thought which opposed both Oxford Scholasticism and the Cartesian mechanistic tradition. Its Neoplatonic metaphysical doctrines placed a strong emphasis on innate ideas.

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• Bygone Beliefs: The Cambridge Platonists

  http://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/bb/bb13.htm
  Chapter from this 1920 work by Herbert Stanley Redgrove, giving a basic outline of the careers of each of the principal members of this movement.

• Platonists and Latitudinarians

  http://www.bartleby.com/218/1101.html
  Section from the Cambridge History of English and American Literature.

• The Cambridge Platonists

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cambridge-platonists/
  Study by Sarah Hutton from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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