Article ID: CBB000058152

Ralph Cudworth in the République des lettres: The controversy about plastick nature and the reputation of Pierre Bayle (1994)

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Description Concerning Jean Le Clerc's 1703 translation and publication of extensive sections of Cudworth's The true intellectual system of the universe (1678), with special attention to “Cudworth's doctrine of `plastic nature', which posited the existence in the universe of a certain `lower life', a creative spiritual force which, while lacking any will of its own, or consciousness of its operations, acts purposefully to execute laws and commands prescribed to it by the Divine Intellect.” Bayle responded to Le Clerc's arguments in his Continuation des pensées diverses sur la comète (1704).


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Authors & Contributors
Baldi, Marialuisa
Benítez, Laura
Berkvens-Stevelinck, Christiane
Bost, Hubert
Bots, Hans
Brogi, Stefano
Journals
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Nouvelles de la République des Lettres
Australian Journal of French Studies
Éndoxa
Geschiedenis van de Wijsbegeerte in Nederland
Lias: Sources and Documents Relating to the Early Modern History of Ideas
Publishers
Ateneo
Champion
Holland University Press
Johns Hopkins University
Meiner
Niemeyer
Concepts
Science
Philosophy
Encyclopedias (history)
Platonism
Philosophy of mind
Psychology
People
Cudworth, Ralph
Bayle, Pierre
Le Clerc, Jean
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Kant, Immanuel
Assmann, Jan
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
19th century
Early modern
Places
British Isles
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