English Cambridge Platonist philosopher who developed the concept of the spirit of nature — a lower providential agent in the world — and argued that space is the divine sensorium.
Developed the Platonic tradition in response to Cartesian mechanism: a spirit of nature operates in the world below God but above matter; space is infinite and divine — a view Newton adopted. Critiqued Descartes's res extensa as unable to account for motion.
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