#Spinoza bekritiseerd door Henry More, de Cambridge Platonist

Op 3 & 4 juni 2018 zullen aan de Faculty of Divinity/Clare College van Cambridge University workshops worden gehouden over de Latijnse werken van Henry More.

[Uit de prospectus:] Henry More was by far the most prolific writer among the Cambridge Platonists. His magisterial Opera Philosophica of 1679, now being edited and translated into English on the AHRC-funded project Cambridge Platonism at the Origins of the Enlightenment, contains some of his most seminal writings, including his influential critiques of Baruch de Spinoza, Jacob Boehme and Isaac de Luria. The interdisciplinary Workshops on the Latin Works of Henry More, organized by the Universities of Cambridge and Bochum, provide first analyses of these newly-edited and newly-translated texts from a variety of historical, philosophical and theological perspectives.

I. Concepts of God and Man in Henry More’s Critique of Spinoza

Spinoza-Opera-portret van onbekende kunstenaar, ca. 1680 (uitsnede)                           Henry More, ets en gravure door William Faithorne, 1675 (uitsnede)

 

More’s refutations of Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise and Ethics provide a comprehensive rebuttal of the Dutch rationalist’s monism of substance and striving on the basis of his mature Christian Platonism. Insisting upon God’s goodness and man’s free will as corollaries of divine perfection, More delineates a deeply original panentheism of space in which the whole of reality, whether intellectual or material, is viewed as extended.

Part I: Baruch de Spinoza and the Cambridge Enlightenment [3rd June, Clare College]

Part II: More’s Anti-Spinozistic Writings: The Ad V.C. Epistola altera, the Scholia and the Confutatio

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NB Over deze informatie had ik gisteren al een blog, maar steeds vaker komt het voor dat - ook al heb ik #Spinoza (mét hashtag) in de titel staan - het bericht niet doorkomt op twitter: via #Benedict de Spinoza en via deze op #Spinoza. Irritant; daarvoor plaats ik er immers die lelijke #'s bij.  Vandaag los ik dat op door het bericht met gewijzigde titel nog eens te brengen.