Philosophy, science, and religion in England, 1640-1700 / edited by Richard Kroll, Richard Ashcraft, Perez Zagorin.

Contributor Kroll, Richard W. F.

Imprint:Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Descriptionxv, 287 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:"Essays ... originally presented at a four-day conference held at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles"--Pref.

Note:Introduction / Richard Kroll -- PART I: THE CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS: PHILOSOPHY AT MID CENTURY: Henry More, the Kabbalah, and the Quakers / Allison P. Coudert -- Edward Stillingfleet, Henry More, and the decline of Moses Atticus: a note on 17th-century Anglican apologetics / Sarah Hutton -- Latitudinarians, neoplatonists, and the ancient wisdom / Joseph M. Levine -- Cudworth, More, and the mechanical analogy / Alan Gabbey -- Cudworth and Hobbes on is and ought / Perez Zagorin -- PART II: THE RESTORATION SETTLEMENT: Latitudinarianism and toleration: historical myth versus political history / Richard Ashcraft -- The intellectual sources of Robert Boyle's philosophy of nature: Gassendi's voluntarism, and Boyle's physico-theological project / Margaret J. Osler -- Latitudinarianism and the "ideology" of the early Royal Society: Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society (1667) reconsidered / Michael Hunter -- Locke and the latitude-men: ignorance as a ground of toleration / G.A.J. Rogers -- John Locke and latitudinarianism / John Marshall.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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