The immortality of the soul
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The immortality of the soul
（The Cambridge Platonists, . Henry More : major philosophical works / edited and introduced by G.A.J. Rogers）
Thoemmes Press, 1997
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The immortality of the soul : so farre forth as it is demonstrable from the knowledge of nature and the light of reason
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Reprint of: The immortality of the soul : so farre forth as it is demonstrable from the knowledge of nature and the light of reason. London : Printed by J. Flesher, 1659
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The Cambridge Platonists occupy a particular place in 17th-century European intellectual history for they were active precisely at that moment when the modern world view was being created and to which they were important contributors. Their concern was to foster new knowledge, as exemplified by the natural sciences, from within a religious and more specifically a Christian neoplatonic framework. Their enemy was the materialism of Thomas Hobbes and the slide towards materialism which they also came to detect in Descartes and other contemporaries. Through their writings they encouraged an atmosphere in which both the natural sciences and religious belief could flourish as the two most potent exemplifications of the power of the rational intellect. The two most important members of the school philosophically were Ralph Cudworth and Henry More. Together they set out to defeat both materialism and atheism by showing that the explanations of the atomistic philosophers required also a spiritual element, which was itself supported by both reason and observation.
Their works remain classic texts of liberal protestant Christian philosophy, and are useful for a full understanding of the relationship between the natural sciences, religion and philosophy in the period from Galile to Newton. Probably one of the most influential of the Cambridge Platonists, this is a collection of Henry More's most important writings and also his biography. The contents include "An Antidote Against Atheism, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, Whether There Be Not a God" (1655).
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Vol 1: "An Antidote Against Atheism, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, Whether There be Not a God" (1655, 2nd ed., 398pp). Vol 2: "Conjectura Cabbalistica - Or, a Conjectural Essay of Interpreting the Minde of Moses According to a Three Fold Cabbala, viz., Literal, Philosophical, Mystical or Divinely Moral" (1653 ed., 251pp). Vol 3: "Enthusiasmus Thriumphatus - Or, a Discourse of the Nature, Causes, Kinds and Cure of Enthusiasme" (1656 ed., 319pp). Vol 4: "The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as it is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason" (1659 ed., 549pp). Vol 5: "An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness" (1660 ed., 546pp). Vol 6: "An Account of the Virtue - Or, Dr Henry More's Abridgement of Morals, put into English" (by Edward Southwell, 1690 ed., 268pp). Vol 7: "Enchiridion Metaphysicum - Sive, De Rebus Incorporsis Succincta and Luculenta Dissertatio" (1671 ed., 403pp). Vol 8: "Two Choice and Useful Treatises - the One Lux Orientalis - Or, an Enquiry into the Opinion of the Eastern Sages Concerning the prae-Existence of Souls (by Joseph Glanvill), the Other, a Discourse on Truth (by George Rust) with Annotations on them both (by Henry More)" (1682 ed., 476pp). Vol 9: "The Life of the Learned and Pious Dr Henry More", by Richard Ward (1911 ed., 323pp).
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