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See also:CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS , a school of philosophico-religious thinkers which flourished mainly at Cambridge University in the second See also:half of the 17th See also:century. The founder was See also:Benjamin See also:Whichcote and the See also:chief members were See also:Ralph See also:Cudworth, See also:Richard See also:Cumberland, See also:Joseph See also:Glanvill, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry More and See also:John See also:Norris (see See also:separate articles). Other less important members were See also:Nathanael Culverwel (d. 1651?), See also:Theophilus See also:Gale (1628-1678), John Pordage (1607-1681), See also:George See also:Rust (d. 167o), John See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith (1618-1652) and John Worthington (1618-'671). They represented liberal thought .at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time and were generally known as Latitudinarians. Their views were due to a reaction against three See also:main tendencies in contemporary See also:English thought: the See also:sacerdotalism of See also:Laud and his followers, the obscurantist sectaries and, most important of all, the doctrines of See also:Hobbes. They consist chiefly of a reconciliation between See also:reason and See also:religion, resulting in a generally tolerant spirit. They tend always to See also:mysticism and the comtemplation of things transcendental. In spite of inaccuracy and the lack of See also:critical capacity in dealing with their authorities both See also:ancient and See also:modern, the Cambridge Platonists exercised a valuable See also:influence on English See also:theology and thought in See also:general. Their chief contributions to
V. 4thought were Cudworth's theory of the " plastic nature " of See also:God, More's elaborate mysticism, Norris's appreciation of See also:Malebranche, Glanvill's conception of See also:scepticism as an aid to Faith, and, in a less degree, the See also:harmony of Faith and Reason elaborated by Culverwel. The one See also:doctrine on which they all combined to See also:lay especial emphasis was the See also:absolute existence of right and wrong quite apart from the theory of divine authority. Their chief authorities were See also:Plato and the Neo-platonists (between whom they made no adequate distinction), and among modern philosophers, See also:Descartes, Malebranche and See also:Boehme. From these See also:sources they attempted to evolve a See also:philosophy of religion, which would not only refute the views of Hobbes, but would also See also:free theology finally from the errors of See also:scholasticism, without plunging it in the newer dangers of unfettered rational-ism (see Entices).
See See also:Tulloch, Rational Theology in See also:England in the 17th Century; See also:Hallam, Literature of See also:Europe (See also:chap. on Philosophy from 165o to 'goo ; See also:Hunt, Religious Thought in England; von See also:Stein, Sieben See also:Bucher zur Geschichte See also:des Platonismus (1862), and See also:works on individual philosophers appended to See also:biographies.
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