Henry More

Sarah Hutton

Senior Lecturer School of Humanities Sarah Hutton

Anne Conway

Lady Anne Conway was a remarkable woman who became a philosopher in her own right at a time when most women were denied even basic education. The Conway Letters is the record of her friendship with the Cambridge Platonist Henry More, which began when he acted as her unofficial tutor in philosophy and lasted until her death in 1679. The letters cover a wide range of topics--personal, philosophical, religious, and social. They give a detailed picture of the More-Conway circle, including such figures as Jeremy Taylor, Ralph Cudworth, Robert Boyle, and Francis Mercury van Helmont, as well as Lady Conway's Quaker associates George Keith and William Penn. The letters are thus a valuable source for mid-seventeenth-century history, and especially for the intellectual history of the period. This revised edition reprints all the letters from the original edition, published in 1930, together with Marjorie Nicolson's biographical account of Anne Conway and Henry More, with its emphasis on the personal side of their relationship. A new Appendix contains some important letters not included in the first edition, among them the early discussion of Cartesianism. The Introduction by Sarah Hutton sets the book in the context of recent scholarship.

The Correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More, and Their Friends, 1642-1684

The Conway Letters

An Explanation of the grand Mystery of Godliness; or, a true and faithfull representation of the Everlasting Gospel of ... Jesus Christ, etc

HISTORIA MISSIONIS ANGLICANAE SOCIETATIS IESV, AB ANNO SALVTIS, M. D. LXXX. AD DC. XIX. ET VICE-PROVINCIAE PRIMVM, TVM PROVINCIAE AD EIVSDEM SAECVLI ANNVM XXXV.

Enchiridion Ethicum, præcipua moralis philosophiæ rudimenta complectens. Per H. Morum. Editio secunda; cui accessit autoris epistola ad V. C. (quæ apologiam complectitur pro Cartesio, etc.)

Alexander Balloch Grosart

The Complete Poems of Dr. Henry More (1614-1687)

For the First Time Collected and Edited: with Memorial-introduction, Notes and Illustrations, Glossarial Index, and Portrait, &c

The Complete Poems of Dr. Henry More (1614-1687).

This is the first complete modern edition of Henry More's long philosophical poem, A Platonick Song of the Soul (1647). This early work, written in Spenserian stanzas, is a sustained literary presentation of the Neoplatonic doctrine of the immateriality and immortality of the soul. The Introduction to this book discusses both the literary background of the work and its varied philosophical and scientific sources, from Plotinus to Ficino and Galileo.

A Platonick Song of the Soul

A modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity, etc. (The Apology of Dr H. More. Wherein is contained ... a more general account of the manner and scope of his writings, etc.).

A brief Reply to a late Answer to ... H. More his Antidote against Idolatry. [Together with the text of the"Antidote."] Shewing that there is nothing in the said Answer that does any ways weaken his proofs of idolatry against the Church of Rome, etc. (An Appendix to the late Antidote against Idolatry, etc.).

The complete poems of dr. Henry More, 1614-1687, ed. with memorial-introduction, notes, index &c. by A.B. Grosart

Containing a Brief But Perspicuous and Continued Exposition from Chapter to Chapter, and from Verse to Verse, of the Whole Book of the Apocalypse

Apocalypsis Apocalypseos, Or, The Revelation of St. John the Divine Unveiled

An Antidote Against Atheism

Philosophical Writings of Henry More

nry More

The significance of Henry More's vitalist philosophy in the history of ideas has been realized relatively recently, as the bibliography will reveal. The general neglect of the Cambridge Platonist movement may be attributed to the common prejudice that its chief exponents, especially More, were obscure mystics who were neither coherent in their philosophical system nor attractive in their prose style. I hope that this modern edition of More's principal treatise will help to correct this unjust im pression and reveal the keenness and originality of More's intellect, which sought to demonstrate the relevance of classical philosophy in an age of empirical science. The wealth of learning -- ranging as it does from Greek antiquity to 17th century science and philosophy -- that informs More' s intellectual system of the universe should, in itself, be a recom mendation to students of the history of ideas. Though, for those in search of literary satisfaction, too, there is not wanting, in More's style, the humour, and grace, of a man whose erudition did not divorce him from a sympathetic understanding of human contradictions. As for More's elaborate speculations concerning the spirit world in the final book of this treatise, I think that we would indeed be justified in regarding their combination of classical mythology amd scientific naturalism as the literary and philosophical counterpart of the great celestial frescoes of the Baroque masters.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes

Henry More. The Immortality of the Soul

A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of

The Immortality of the Soul, So Farre Forth as it is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason

Or, A True and Faithfull Representation of the Everlasting Gospel of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the Onely [sic] Begotten Son of God and Sovereign Over Men and Angels

An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness

William Wake

Wherein the Witty Artifices of the Bishop of Meaux and of Monsieur Maimbourg are Obviated, Whereby They Would Draw in the Protestants to Imbrace the Doctrine of Transubstantiation

A Brief Discourse of the Real Presence of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist

Discourses on several texts of Scripture. By the late ... H. More. [Edited by J. Worthington.]

Together with a Brief Discourse of Idolatry; with Application to the Church of Rome

An Exposition of the Seven Epistles to the Seven Churches

Henry More

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