English philosopher and major Cambridge Platonist who wrote the most systematic refutation of atheistic materialism of the 17th century and developed a theory of plastic nature.
The True Intellectual System: refutes atomistic atheism; posits plastic nature — a lower world-soul that implements the higher soul's rational plan without consciousness — avoiding both occasionalism and materialism. Moral truth is eternal and not dependent on God's arbitrary will.
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