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English philosopher of the Cambridge Platonist school
- Henry More FRS (/ mɔːr /; 12 October 1614 – 1 September 1687) was an English philosopher of the Cambridge Platonist school.
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Views. More was a rationalist theologian. He attempted to use the details of 17th-century mechanical philosophy —as developed by René Descartes —to establish the existence of immaterial substance. [5]
Aug 24, 2007 · Henry More (1614–1687), theologian, and philosopher, is usually regarded as characteristic of a group of broadly like-minded thinkers, discerned by historians and designated by them as the Cambridge Platonists (Tulloch 1874, Cassirer 1953).
Aug 28, 2024 · Henry More (born 1614, Grantham, Lincolnshire, Eng.—died Sept. 1, 1687, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) was an English poet and philosopher of religion who was perhaps the best known of the group of thinkers known as the Cambridge Platonists. Though reared a Calvinist, More became an Anglican as a youth.
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Aug 24, 2007 · Henry More (1614–1687), theologian, and philosopher, is usually regarded as characteristic of a group of broadly like-minded thinkers, discerned by historians and designated by them as the Cambridge Platonists.
May 18, 2018 · His father, "a gentleman of fair estate and fortune," was a strict Calvinist but supported church and king against the Puritans. He introduced his son to Edmund Spenser 's Faerie Queene, and Spenser's Platonism, allegorizing, and moral attitudes persist in More's own writings.
Oct 28, 2022 · Henry More was an expounder of Cambridge Platonism, as he largely relied on a Platonic-inspired standpoint in pursuing his aims: the demonstration of the immortality of the soul, the critique of atheism, and religious enthusiasm.
Henry More (1614-1687), the Cambridge Platonist, is often presented as an elusive and contradictory figure. An early apologist for the new natural philosophy and its rational support for Christian doctrine, More also defended the existence of witchcraft and wrote extensively on the nature of the soul and the world of spirits.
