Henry More, 1614-1687 : a biography of the Cambridge Platonist /
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| Author / Creator: | Crocker, Robert, 1952- |
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| Imprint: | Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2003. |
| Description: | xxvi, 275 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Archives internationales d'histoire des idées = International archives of the history of ideas ; 185 Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 185. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5203954 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Early Life and Education
- 1. Grantham, Eton and Cambridge
- 2. Conversion to Platonism
- 3. Early Influences: Gell and Castellio
- 2. Psychozoia and the Life of the Soul
- 1. The `Divine Life' and its Goal
- 2. The Allegory of the Spiritual Journey
- 3. Metaphysics, Psychology and Natural Philosophy in the Psychodia Platonica
- 1. The `Ogdoas' or Chain of Being
- 2. The Psychology of Illumination
- 3. Arguing from Nature
- 4. Enthusiasm and the Light Within
- 1. `A Full but False Persuasion'
- 2. `Philosophical Enthusiasm'
- 3. `Political Enthusiasm'
- 5. Plato Democritans: the Ancient Cabbala Revived
- 1. Some Early Disciples and Friends
- 2. Platonism and Cartesianism
- 3. Innate Ideas and Incorporeal Things
- 6. The Cupri-Cosmits and the Latitude-Men
- 1. `The Cupri-Cosmits'
- 2. The Restoration in Cambridge
- 3. Some `Rules to Judge Opinions by'
- 7. The Apology of Dr Henry More
- 1. The Grounds for Authority
- 2. The Intelligibility of Doctrine
- 3. The Coherence of Prophecy
- 8. The Preexistence of the Soul
- 1. `A Most Likely Hypothesis'
- 2. The Reaction against Preexistence
- 3. Preexistence and Providence
- 9. A Natural History of the World of Spirits
- 1. A `True History of Spirits'
- 2. The Webster-More Debate
- 10. The Limits of Mechanism and the Experimental Philosophy of the Royal Society
- 1. The Two Keys of Providence
- 2. The Threat of "Nullibism"
- 3. Henry Stubbe and the Royal Society
- 4. Robert Boyle and the Spirit of Nature
- 11. Hylozoism and the Nature of Material Substance
- 1. Glisson's `Energetic Substance'
- 2. The `Psychopyrism' of Richard Baxter
- 3. Errant Disciple: John Finch and his Treatise
- 12. The Kabbalah and the Quakers: F.M. van Helmont, Anne Conway, van Helmont, and Knorr von Rosenroth
- 1. The Jewish and `Greek' Cabbalas
- 2. More, Anne Conway and the Quakers
- Conclusion
- Bibliography:
- 1. Primary Sources
- 2. Secondary Sources
- Appendix: The Correspondence of Henry More
- Index