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Ralph Cudworth

Ralph CudworthRalph Cudworth (1617-1688).

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  • 1 Ideas
  • 2 Biography
  • 3 Major Works of Ralph Cudworth
    • 3.1 Related:
  • 4 Videos
  • 5 Related Products
    • 5.1 A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality: With A Treatise of Freewill (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
    • 5.2 The True Intellectual System Of The Universe: Wherein All The Reason And Philosophy Of Atheism Is Confuted, And Its Impossibility Demonstrated
    • 5.3 The philosophy of Ralph Cudworth : a study of the True intellectual system of the universe
    • 5.4 Ralph Cudworth: An Interpretation
    • 5.5 The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism Is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated; Volume 2
    • 5.6 The True Intellectual System Of The Universe: Wherein All The Reason And Philosophy Of Atheism Is Confuted, And Its Impossibility Demonstrated, Volume 1
    • 5.7 The True Intellectual System of the Universe: With a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality, Volume 3
    • 5.8 A Treatise Of Freewill (1838)
    • 5.9 The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism Is Confuted, and Its Impossibility ... the Lord's Supper; And Two Sermons on I John
    • 5.10 Plastic Intellectual Breeze: The Contribution of Ralph Cudworth to S. T. Coleridge’s Early Poetics of the Symbol (Europäische Hochschulschriften / ... / Publications Universitaires Européennes)

Ideas

– There is an ancient wisdom (prisca theology), known to all peoples.

– We can have only limited knowledge of God.

– All people, even atheists, have an idea of God.

– The political explanation of religion is not adequate to explain Christianity.

– A survey of religious knowledge, pagan and Judeo-Christian, shows what true religion is.

– There is a rational basis for moral behavior.

Biography

English religious philosopher, metaphysician, and scholar.

Ralph Cudworth is considered the leading seventeenth-century Cambridge Platonist.

His two major works, The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) and A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731), were influential among the New England Transcendentalists and provided crucial support for Ralph Waldo Emerson’s belief in the infallibility of intuition.

Cudworth’s writings, commended by Clarence Gohdes as the “background of New England thought,” refute Hobbesian materialism, embrace the new science of the 1600s, and emphasize the dynamic workings of the human mind.

Major Works of Ralph Cudworth

– The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678)
– A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731)

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