Cambridge Platonism

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intellectual tradition philosophical movement theological movement

Cambridge Platonism was a 17th-century English philosophical and theological movement that blended Christian doctrine with Platonic and humanist ideas to defend reason, moral idealism, and religious tolerance.

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Label	Occurrences
Cambridge Platonism canonical	2
Cambridge Platonists	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	intellectual tradition ⓘ philosophical movement ⓘ theological movement ⓘ
associatedWith	Benjamin Whichcote ⓘ Henry More ⓘ John Smith of Cambridge ⓘ John Worthington ⓘ Nathaniel Culverwell ⓘ Peter Sterry ⓘ Ralph Cudworth ⓘ
coreIdea	God as the source of eternal truths ⓘ emphasis on the moral and spiritual life ⓘ freedom of the will ⓘ harmony of reason and faith ⓘ innate ideas ⓘ moral idealism ⓘ rational religion ⓘ rejection of theological determinism ⓘ religious tolerance ⓘ the goodness of God ⓘ the intelligibility of the universe ⓘ
country	England ⓘ
endTime	late 17th century ⓘ
historicalContext	English Civil War ⓘ Interregnum ⓘ Stuart period ⓘ surface form: Restoration England
inception	17th century ⓘ c. 1630s ⓘ
influenced	Anglican theology ⓘ English liberal theology ⓘ Enlightenment moral philosophy ⓘ latitudinarianism ⓘ rational theology ⓘ
influencedBy	Augustine of Hippo ⓘ Christian theology ⓘ Neoplatonism ⓘ Patristic thought ⓘ Plato ⓘ Renaissance humanism ⓘ Stoicism ⓘ
language	English ⓘ Latin ⓘ
mainInstitutionalBase	Cambridge University ⓘ surface form: University of Cambridge
mainRegion	CAMBRIDGE ⓘ surface form: Cambridge
notableWork	The Eternal and Immutable Morality ⓘ surface form: A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality Enchiridion ⓘ surface form: Enchiridion Ethicum Enchiridion Metaphysicum ⓘ Moral and Religious Aphorisms ⓘ Select Discourses ⓘ The Eternal and Immutable Morality ⓘ The True Intellectual System of the Universe ⓘ
opposedTo	Hobbesian materialism ⓘ atheism ⓘ mechanistic philosophy ⓘ religious enthusiasm ⓘ strict Calvinist predestinarianism ⓘ
philosophicalTradition	Christian philosophy ⓘ Platonism ⓘ early modern philosophy ⓘ
religiousContext	Anglicanism (broadly) ⓘ surface form: Anglicanism Church of England ⓘ
viewOnGod	God acts according to wisdom and goodness, not arbitrary will ⓘ God is perfectly good and rational ⓘ
viewOnHumanNature	humans possess an innate capacity to know God ⓘ the soul is immaterial and immortal ⓘ
viewOnMorality	moral distinctions are objective and grounded in God ⓘ moral truths are eternal and immutable ⓘ
viewOnReason	reason as the candle of the Lord ⓘ
viewOnReligion	true religion is reasonable and moral ⓘ
viewOnTolerance	advocacy of broad religious toleration within Christianity ⓘ

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Renaissance Platonism → influenced → Cambridge Platonism ⓘ

Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway → movement → Cambridge Platonism ⓘ

Latitudinarianism → associatedWith → Cambridge Platonism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cambridge Platonists