The Cambridge Platonists in Philosophical Context: Politics, Metaphysics and Religion

by G.A.J. Rogers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048148448
• ISBN13: 9789048148448
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"