1678 1st Edtn THE TRUE INTELLECTUAL SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSE By R Cudworth Illus. Good Philosophy

1678 1st Edition , 
THE TRUE INTELLECTUAL SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSE
 The First Part wherein, all the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted and its Impossibility Demonstrated
By R Cudworth
Ralph Cudworth FRS (1617 – 26 June 1688) was an English Anglican clergyman, Christian Hebraist, classicist, theologian and philosopher, and a leading figure among the Cambridge Platonists who became 11th Regius Professor of Hebrew (1645–88), 26th Master of Clare Hall (1645–54), and 14th Master of Christ's College (1654–88). A leading opponent of Hobbes's political and philosophical views, his magnum opus was his The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678).

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Language: English
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1678 1st Edition
THE INTELLECTUAL SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSE: The First Part [all published]; wherein, all the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is confuted; and its Impossibility demonstrated.
R.Cudworth
PHILOSOPHY
No frontispiece [not missing]. 1, 2, 16, 899 [84, 97-156, 155-179, 190, 181-300, 303-346, 407414, 355-899], Contents [84], Errata, [xx] pp., complete with the usual mispaginations.
Folio, engraved frontispiece depicting the theist victory of Aristotle, Pythagoras and Socrates over the atheist confusion of Strato, Epicurus and Anaximander.

Previous Owner: Sir John Taylor Coleridge (9 July 1790 – 11 February 1876) was an English judge, the second son of Captain James Coleridge and nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Written in answer to Hobbes and against Spinoza, and Cudworth's only work of philosophy to be published in his lifetime (1617-88). Arguably it constitutes the most important statement of innate-idea epistemology by any British philosopher of the seventeenth century. 'The full extent of Cudworth's legacy in philosophy has yet to be mapped out. 'The True Intellectual System is primarily a critique of what Cudworth took to be the two principal forms of atheism - materialism and hylozoism [a term coined by Cudworth for the view that all matter is in some sense alive]. The materialist Cudworth had especially in mind is Thomas Hobbes. Cudworth attempts to show that Hobbes had revived the doctrines of Protagoras and is therefore subject to the criticisms which Plato had deployed against Protagoras the the Theaetetus. On the side of hylozoism Strato is the official target. However, Cudworth's Dutch friends had certainly reported to him the views which Spinoza was circulating in manuscript. Cudworth remarks in his Preface that he would have ignored hylozoism had he not been aware that a new version of it would shortly be published' (John Passmore, Encyclopedia of Philosophy). This was Cudworth's first major work and it, aroused strong feelings, and was commented upon by the likes of, Dryden, Newton, Locke, Leibniz, Coleridge (influence Coleridge's concept of the symbol and its related symbolic knowledge) and Hegel. It covers, the genesis of both Atomism and Atheism from antiquity to, modern times and includes discussions on biology, psychology,, botany, physics, and philosophy. In one section he argues that, existence of the spiritual world is confirmed by the presence, of witches, magicians and "demoniacks," he talks about demons,, angels and embodied spirits




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