افلاطونیان کمبریج و فلسفه مدرن اولیه: ابداع فلسفه دین [کتاب انگلیسی] | کتابخانه مجازی الفبا

Table of contents :
Cover
Half-title page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Cambridge Platonists and Philosophy of Religion
Part I The Origins of Cambridge Platonism
1 Learned and Ingenious Men
The Lives and Times of the Cambridge Platonists
Benjamin Whichcote (1609–1683)
Ralph Cudworth (1617–1688)
John Smith (c. 1618–1652)
Henry More (c. 1614–1687)
On the Idea (and Existence) of Cambridge Platonism
The Evidence of the Eight Letters
The Learned and Ingenious Men and Their Platonic ‘Veine of Doctrine’
2 ‘Plato and His Scholars’: Early Cambridge Platonism
What Is a Platonist?
The ‘Public Profession of Platonism’ at Cambridge
University and College Life
Henry More
Ralph Cudworth
John Worthington
John Smith
John Sadler and Peter Sterry
Laurence Sarson
Early Cambridge Platonism, c. 1635–1640
3 Puritanism and Predestination
Puritanism and Reformed Theology, 1600–1640
The English Puritans
Double Predestination
The Rise of Anti-Calvinism: ‘Arminianism’ and ‘Laudianism’
‘A Cataclysmic Showdown’
Puritans in Power
Calvinism and Anti-Calvinism at Cambridge, c. 1626–1649
Emmanuel and Christ’s: Puritan Seminaries
‘The Godly Emmanuel Mafia’
Philosophy in the Puritan Colleges
Pricking the Conscience
Cambridge Anti-Calvinists
4 Cambridge Platonists versus Cambridge Calvinists: John Goodwin and the 1651 Whichcote–Tuckney Correspondence
The Parliamentary Purges
John Goodwin and Redemption Redeemed
Charles Hotham and the ‘Goodwin Fan Club’
Umbra Comitiorum and the 1651 Commencement
Conclusions
Part II Rival Conceptions of God and Goodness: The Platonic Anti-Calvinism of the Cambridge Platonists
5 Goodness and the Will of God: Moral Realism versus Voluntarism
Metaethical Voluntarism in Calvinist Theology
Luther’s Bondage of the Will
Calvin’s Appeal to Voluntarism
Perkins and Preston: Voluntarism in the Cambridge Calvinists
Ralph Cudworth’s Moral Realism
The Commons Sermon: The Euthyphro Dilemma
Dantur Rationes Boni et Mali Aeterni et Indispensabiles
Henry More’s Moral Realism
John Smith’s Moral Realism
Benjamin Whichcote’s Moral Realism
God ‘Under the Power of Goodness’
Later Whichcote on Moral Realism
Conclusions
6 Is God an Arbitrary Tyrant? Platonic Participation versus the Decree of Reprobation
The Problem of ‘Divine Tyranny’
Arbitrariness and Tyranny in Political Discourse, c. 1620–1650
Reprobation as Divine Tyranny
More, Cudworth and Smith against Divine Tyranny
Whichcote against Divine Tyranny
What Glorifies God? Communication versus Reprobation
Crypto-Realist Defences of Reprobation
Divine Communicative Intent
Reprobation and the Glory of God
Divine and Human Goodness
Conclusions
7 Righteousness Real and Imagined: Participation and Deification versus Imputed Righteousness
Justification, Sanctification and Imputed Righteousness
Justification in the Reformed Theological Tradition
Imputed versus Inherent Righteousness
Imputation and Voluntarism
The ‘Platonique Faith’ of the Cambridge Platonists
The ‘Prejudice of Imputed Righteousness’
A Platonic Theory of Justification
‘High-Flown Platonists’
The Cambridge Platonists’ Doctrine of Justification in Context
Natural Virtue and Heaven-Bound Heathens
Reformed Theology on the Natural Virtues of Non-Christians
The Divine Heathens
Conclusions
Part III The Religious Epistemology of the Cambridge Platonists
8 Reason and the Mind of God: Platonic Religious Epistemology
Knowing God through Reason
Platonic Knowledge by Resemblance
The Moral Dimension of Reason
God-Likeness: A Good Mind and a Good Life
‘A Good Mind’: Cognitive God-Likeness
‘A Good Life’: Practical God-Likeness
Conclusions
9 Deification as Spiritual Sensation: The Epistemology of Religious Experience
Perceiving God
Reason as Spiritual Sense
Deification as Direct Acquaintance
Misperceiving God
Passions as Epistemic Distortions
Animal Imagination
Imagination and Divine Anthropomorphism
Self-Will: Will Overruling Reason
Self-Will as the Cause of Voluntarism
Reason Bridging the Divine and the Human
10 Liberty, Violence and Practical Reason: Moral Obligation and the Law of Love
Divine Reason and Divine Liberty
Human Liberty
Seeing with One’s Own Eyes
Conclusions
Conclusion: The Cambridge Platonists as Early Modern Christian Platonists
The Platonism of the Cambridge Platonists
Continuities and Discontinuities
Christian Platonism and Modernity
References
Index