Platonism at the origins of modernity
Subtitle: studies on Platonism and early modern philosophy
By: edited by Douglas Hedley and Sarah Hutton.
Contributors: Hedley, Douglas.; Hutton, Sarah, 1948-.
Series: Archives internationales d'histoire des idées = -- International archives of the history of ideas -- 196; Archives internationales d'histoire des idées -- 196.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781402064067; 9781402064074
Subjects: Plato -- Criticism and interpretation.; Cudworth, Ralph, -- 1617-1688 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Descartes, René, -- 1596-1650 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Platonists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Two of the essays were translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Sarah Hutton; title: Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464): Platonism at the dawn of modernity / Dermot Moran; title: At variance: Marsilio Ficino, Platonism and heresy / Michael J.B. Allen; title: Going naked into the shrine: Herbert, Plotinus and the constructive metaphor / Stephen R.L. Clark; title: Comenius, light metaphysics and educational reform / Jan Rohls (translated by Alexandra Wörn and David Leech); title: Robert Fludd's Kabbalistic cosmos / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (translated by Geoff Dumbreck and Douglas Hedley); title: Reconciling theory and and fact: the problem of "other faiths" in Lord Herbert and the Cambridge Platonists / David Pailin; title: Trinity, community and love: Cudworth's Platonism and the idea of God / Leslie Armour; title: Chaos and order in Cudworth's thought / Jean-Louis Breteau; title: Cudworth, Prior and Passmore on the autonomy of ethics / Robin Attfield; title: Substituting Aristotle: Platonic themes in Dutch Cartesianism / Han van Ruler; title: Soul, body and world: Plato's Timaeus and Descartes' Meditations / Catherine Wilson; title: Locke, Plato and Platonism / G.A.J. Rogers; title: Reflections on Locke's Platonism / Victor Nuovo; title: The Platonism at the core of Leibniz's philosophy / Christia Mercer; title: Leibniz and Berkeley: Platonic metaphysics and "The Mechanical Philosophy" / Stuart Brown; title: Which Platonism for which modernity? a note on Shaftesbury's Socratic sea-cards / Laurent Jaffro; title: Platonism, aesthetics and the sublime at the origins of modernity / Douglas Hedley.