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Article: Cambridge Platonists
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CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS
CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS.
The Cambridge Platonists are so called because they were all educated at the University of Cambridge and were all indebted to Platonist philosophy. The senior member of the group was Benjamin Whichcote (1609
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1683), and its most important philosophers were Henry More (1614
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1687) and Ralph Cudworth (1617
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1688). The group also included Peter Sterry (1613
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1672), John Smith (1618
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1652), Nathaniel Culverwel (1619
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1651), and John Worthington (1618
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1671). Their younger followers included George Rust (d. 1670), Anne Conway (1631
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1679), and John Norris (1675
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1711).
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