| Front | Cambridge platonists |
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| Back | at the university of Cambridge between 1633 and 1688 the chief contemporary influence was the philosophy of René Descartes, though they couldn't accept his materialistic view of the inanimate world the Cambridge Platonists advocated tolerance and insisted on the need for comprehension, seeing reason as the arbiter of both natural and revealed religion morality itself is based on reason , and reason and religion are essentially in harmony Henry More, Ralph cudworth, john Smith Cambridge Platonists were a group of theologians and philosophers at the University of Cambridge in the middle of the 17th century. The leading figures were Ralph Cudworth, Nathaniel Culverwell, Benjamin Whichcote, and Henry More |
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