The Cambridge Platonists in Philosophical Context
Rogers, G. A. / Zarka, Y. C. / Vienne, J. -M.
The Cambridge Platonists were defenders of tolerance in the political as well as the moral sphere , they held that practical j u d g e m e n t came down in the last instance to individual conscience , and they laid the foundations of our modern conceptions of conscience and liberty. But at the same time they ma intained the existence of eternal truths , and of a Good-in-itself , identical with Truth and Being, refusing to admit that freedom of...
