Article ID: CBB571151709

Gods and Giants: Cudworth’s Platonic Metaphysics and His Ancient Theology (2017)

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The Cambridge Platonists are modern thinkers and the context of seventeenth-century Cambridge science is an inalienable and decisive part of their thought. Cudworth’s interest in ancient theology, however, seems to conflict with the progressive aspect of his philosophy. The problem of the nature, however, of this ‘Platonism’ is unavoidable. Even in his complex and recondite ancient theology Cudworth is motivated by philosophical considerations, and his legacy among philosophers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries should not be overlooked. In particular we will draw on the scholarship of the German Egyptologist Jan Assmann in order to reassess the significance of Cudworth’s theory of religion for later philosophical developments.

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Authors & Contributors
Gasparri, Giuliano
Goy, Ina
Callanan, John J.
Arthur, Richard
Zupko, Jack
Thijssen, J. M. M. H.
Journals
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
History of the Human Sciences
History of European Ideas
Éndoxa
Publishers
Brill
Rubbettino
Polity Press
Oxford (England)
Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura
de Gruyter
Concepts
Philosophy
Philosophy and religion
Theology
Metaphysics
Platonism
Natural philosophy
People
Cudworth, Ralph
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Descartes, René
Kant, Immanuel
Gassendi, Pierre
De Benedictis, Giovanni Battista
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Renaissance
Medieval
19th century
15th century
Places
England
Italy
Naples (Italy)
France
Europe
China
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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