Ralph Cudworth

Ralph Cudworth (1617-1688) was an eminent English divine and philosopher, born in Somerset. His chief work, a vast and discursive one, and to which he owes his fame, "The True Intellectual System of the Universe," in which he teaches a philosophy of the Platonic type, which ascribes more to the abiding inner than the fugitive outer of things. He defends revealed religion on grounds of reason against both the atheist and the materialist. His candour and liberality exposed him to much misconstruction, and on that account was deemed a latitudinarian. "He stands high among our early philosophers for his style, which, if not exactly elegant and never splendid, is solid and clear".

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