A group of 17th-century English philosophers at Cambridge — including Henry More, Ralph Cudworth, Benjamin Whichcote, and Damaris Masham — who synthesized Platonic metaphysics with Christian theology against both Calvinist determinism and materialist mechanism.
Argued against Hobbes's materialism and Calvinist voluntarism: reason is not against religion but its foundation; the moral law is eternal and knowable by reason; spirit is more fundamental than matter; toleration and rational inquiry are the proper theological dispositions.
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