When1: 1670
Who: Cambridge Platonists
What: philosophic school
Where: Cambridge, England
Detail: School included Ralph Cudworth, Henry More, John Smith, Theophilus Gale, and Thomas Gale. It opposed religious emotionalism and favored rational religion.
Ethics
Morality is rational understanding of God's ideas. It is not about will.
There are altruistic motives.
Metaphysics
World has purpose but has no predestination or original sin.
Mind
Mind is primary, to account for consciousness. Matter is secondary.
Politics
People have social motives.
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