Bygone Beliefs: The Cambridge Platonists
Edit Page
Report
Scan day: 16 February 2014 UTC
-11
Virus safety - good
Description: Chapter from this 1920 work by Herbert Stanley Redgrove, giving a basic outline of the careers of each of the principal members of this movement.
THERE is an opinion, unfortunately very common, that religious mysticism is a product of the emotional temperament, and is diametrically opposed to the spirit of rationalism. No doubt this opinion is not without some element of justification, and one could quote the works of not a few religious mystics to the effect that self-surrender to God implies, not merely a giving up of will, but also of reason. But that this teaching is not an essential element in mysticism, that it is, indeed, rather its perversion, there is adequate evidence to demonstrate. SWEDENBORG is, I suppose, the outstanding instance of an intellectual mystic; but the essential unity of mysticism and rationalism is almost as forcibly made evident in the case of the Cambridge Platonists. That little band of "Latitude men," as their contemporaries called them, constitutes one of the finest schools of philosophy that England has produced; yet their works are rarely read, I am afraid, save by specialists. Possibly, however, if it were more commonly known what a wealth of sound philosophy and true spiritual teaching they contain, the case would be otherwise.
Size: 1147 chars
Contact Information
Email: —
Phone&Fax: —
Address: —
Extended: —
WEBSITE Info
| Page title: | Bygone Beliefs |
| Keywords: | Alchemy neo-Platonism |
| Description: | Bygone Beliefs, by Herbert Stanley Redgrove, at sacred-texts.com |
| IP-address: | 63.249.123.11 |
WHOIS Info
| NS | Name Server: HOST4-SEC.CRUZIO.COM Name Server: HOST4.CRUZIO.COM |
| WHOIS | Status: clientTransferProhibited |
| Date | Creation Date: 25-feb-1999 Expiration Date: 25-feb-2016 |