Abstract

This work treats comprehensively seventeenth century Cambridge Platonism, but gives pride of place to the movement’s practical philosophy. The editors organize the collection of essays, composed in English and French, in such a way that the moral-theological and political theories put forward by thinkers in the Cambridge group are fully emphasized. The approach to these thinkers from the moral and political perspective allows us to see important connections between modern Platonic physics, metaphysics, and theories of knowledge that otherwise would remain obscure. In particular, that approach enables us to recognize the great extent to which both the natural and moral philosophies of the Cambridge Platonists were determined by a common concern to respond to voluntarism in its various forms.