{"product_id":"9789048148448","title":"The Cambridge Platonists in Philosophical Context: Politics, Metaphysics and Religion","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Cambridge Platonists in Philosophical Context: Politics, Metaphysics and Religion\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eRogers, G.A.; Vienne, J.-M.; Zarka, Y.C.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cambridge Platonists were defenders of tolerance in the political as well as the moral sphere ; they held that practical j u d g e m e n t came down in the last instance to individual conscience ; and they laid the foundations of our modern conceptions of conscience and liberty. But at the same time they ma intained the existence of eternal truths , and of a Good-in-itself , identical with Truth and Being, refusing to admit that freedom of conscience i m p li e d moral relativism. They were critics of dogmatism, and of the sectarian notion of \"enthusiasm\" as a source of illumination , on the grounds that both were disruptive of social harmony; they pleaded the cause of reason , in the hope that it could become the foundation of all human knowledge . Yet , for all that , they ma intained that a certain sort of mystical illumination lay at the heart of all true thought , and that human reason had validity only in virtue of i t s divine origin . They debated with Des cartes and took a keen interest in his mech- ism and his dualism ; they brought the atomistic theories of Democritus back into repute; and they sought to provide a detailed account of the causality link ing all phenomena.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2010-12-08\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9789048148448\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-015-8933-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 240.0cm x160.0cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 258.0\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44358984827020,"sku":"9789048148448","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789048148448_ad616017-19aa-469f-b93f-b6fb0de73b26.jpg?v=1765470626","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9789048148448","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}