"We shall remove the Sun": Henry More's Neoplatonic adaptation of Jacob Böhme's philosophy.
This article presents a detailed analysis of how the Cambridge Platonist Henry More (1614–1687) adapted the philosophy of the German mystic Jacob Böhme (1575–1624). For More, Böhme's errors can be amended only by intervening radically in his philosophical system, discussing not what Böhme said, but...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 426 - 452 |
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