Platonism and Cartesianism in the Philosophy of Ralph Cudworth (review)

1967 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-94
Author(s):  
Bernard H Baumrin
Keyword(s):  
Ralph Cudworth

Early British Reactions to Absolutism: 1664 to 1687

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Margaret Cavendish ◽  
Robert Boyle ◽  
Ralph Cudworth

This chapter considers early British reactions to absolutism between the start of Barrow’s pertinent lectures in 1664, and the publication of Newton’s Principia in 1687. Although the amount of discussion absolutism received in Britain during this period was much less than it would receive later, it was already capturing the attention of some important thinkers. The reactions to absolutism were mixed. Different kinds of absolutism about space or time was adopted by thinkers such as Samuel Parker, Robert Boyle, and John Turner. In contrast, absolutism was rejected by philosophers such as Margaret Cavendish, Ralph Cudworth, Nathaniel Fairfax, and Anne Conway.

Newton and Cambridge Platonism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Hutton
Keyword(s):  
Significant Part ◽  
Infinite Space ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Ralph Cudworth ◽  
Cambridge Platonism ◽  
Henry More ◽  
The University ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Cambridge Platonists

This article discusses Isaac Newton’s relations with two older colleagues at the University of Cambridge, Ralph Cudworth and Henry More, two of the so-called Cambridge Platonists,. It shows that there are biographical links between them, especially between More and Newton. Despite differences in theological outlook (e.g. on the Trinity), they shared intellectual interests and scholarly approach. All three were critical of Descartes, and More, like Newton, posited infinite space. In addition, there were parallels in their investigations of biblical prophecy—thanks to their debt to the Cambridge Bible scholar Joseph Mede. Newton drew on Cudworth and, like More, examined the texts of the Kabbala denudata. It is argued here that, although Newton differed from them in his conclusions, More and Cudworth were a significant part of Newton’s intellectual background.

Damaris Cudworth Masham: A Seventeenth Century Feminist Philosopher

Hypatia ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lois Frankel
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Double Standard ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Sexual Morality ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Feminist Literature ◽  
Male Experience ◽  
Ralph Cudworth ◽  
Female Experience

The daughter of Ralph Cudworth, and friend of John Locke, Damaris Masham was also a philosopher in her own right. She published two, philosophical books, A Discourse Concerning the Love of God and Occasional Thoughts In Reference to a Virtuous and Christian Life. Her primary purpose was to refute John Norris’ Malebranchian doctrine that we ought to love only God because only God can give us pleasure, and his criticism of Locke. In addition, she argues for greater educational opportunities for women, and an end to the double standard in sexual morality. Recent feminist literature has suggested that women and men may take different ethical and epistemological stands based on differences between the ‘female experience’, and the ‘male experience’. While leaving aside questions pertaining to the accuracy of these suggestions, this paper discusses some aspects of Mash’ am's thought which might be considered representative of the ‘female experience.’

The Problem of Universals in Early Modern Philosophy

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Nicolas Malebranche ◽  
Early Modern Philosophy ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Pierre Gassendi ◽  
Ralph Cudworth ◽  
Henry More ◽  
Scholastic Philosophy

The ancient topic of universals was central to scholastic philosophy, which raised the question of whether universals exist as Platonic forms, as instantiated Aristotelian forms, as concepts abstracted from singular things, or as words that have universal signification. It might be thought that this question lost its importance after the decline of scholasticism in the modern period. However, the fourteen contributions to this volume indicate that the issue of universals retained its vitality in modern philosophy. Modern philosophers in fact were interested in three sets of issues concerning universals: (1) issues concerning the ontological status of universals, (2) issues concerning the psychology of the formation of universal concepts or terms, and (3) issues concerning the value and use of universal concepts or terms in the acquisition of knowledge. Chapters in this volume consider the various forms of “Platonism,” “conceptualism,” and “nominalism” (and distinctive combinations thereof) that emerged from the consideration of such issues in the work of modern philosophers. The volume covers not only the canonical modern figures, namely, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant, but also more neglected figures such as Pierre Gassendi, Pierre-Sylvain Regis, Nicolas Malebranche, Henry More, Ralph Cudworth, and John Norris.

scholarly journals El enigma de Ralph Cudworth en la historia de la filosofía

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-374
Author(s):  
Natalia Soledad Strok
Keyword(s):  
Ralph Cudworth

En el presente trabajo se estudia el lugar que ocupa Ralph Cudworth en la historia de la filosofía. El objetivo es mostrar que este autor no es parte del canon de la filosofía del siglo XVII y que, sin embargo, es un representante del período moderno en las primeras historias de la filosofía. Para ello, primero se introduce al autor y luego se expone la presentación que se realiza del inglés en las obras de Jacob Brucker, Wilhelm Tennemann, Taddä Rixner y Joseph Marie Degérando, para terminar en las Lecciones sobre historia de la filosofía de Georg Hegel. En un segundo momento se exponen algunas reflexiones en torno a Cudworth, que se originan a partir de la lectura de la bibliografía actualizada sobre dicho autor. Las conclusiones muestran la importancia de estudiar este tipo de pensadores, que no forman parte del canon de la filosofía pero son parte de la conformación del mismo.

Karaism and Christian Hebraism: A New Document*

2006 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 1089-1116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Lasker
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Semitic Languages ◽  
Hebrew Letter ◽  
Ralph Cudworth ◽  
John Selden ◽  
The University ◽  
Christian Hebraism

In September 1641 Joannes Stephanus Rittangel sent a Hebrew letter to John Selden, the prominent English jurist and Christian Hebraist, soliciting Selden’s assistance in publishing Karaite manuscripts. The letter’s publication here contributes both to our knowledge of the activities of Rittangel — expert in Karaism and Professor Extraordinary of Semitic languages at the University of Koenigsberg — and to the picture we have of Christian Hebraism in England. From this letter and from references to Rittangel in contemporary literature, we can reconstruct some of his activities from the time he was recorded to have been in Lithuania at the end of 1640 to his appearance in Amsterdam in late 1641. We can also appreciate how knowledge of Karaism was spread among English Christians such as John Selden and Ralph Cudworth, and also how that information contributed to the millenarianism of Samuel Hartlib and John Dury.

A Godly Atomist in Seventeenth Century England: Ralph Cudworth

Historian ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-249
Author(s):  
Joel M. Rodney
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Ralph Cudworth
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