Ralph Cudworth's The True Intellectual System of the Universe and the Presocratic Philosophers

In Oliver Primavesi & Katharina Luchner (eds.), The Presocratics from the Latin Middle Ages to Hermann Diels: Akten Der 9. Tagung Der Karl und Gertrud Abel-Stiftung Vom 5.-7. Oktober 2006 in München. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag (2011)
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Abstract

Ralph Cudworth (1617-88) was one of the Cambridge Platonists. His major work, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, was completed in 1671, a year after Spinoza published (anonymously) the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus. It was published a few years later, in 1678. Cudworth offers a spirited attack against the materialism and mechanism of Thomas Hobbes. His work is couched as a search for truth among the ancient philosophers, and this paper examines his use of the Presocratics as a tool for discussing the issues of his day.

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