Forme del neoplatonismo. Dall'eredità ficiniana ai platonici di Cambridge

Cambridge Platonism constitutes the first significant flowering of Platonic philosophy in England. In many respects, Cambridge Platonism can be seen as a seventeenth-century English version of the Christian Platonism of fifteenth-century Florence. There is no doubt that the Cambridge Platonists were the beneficiaries of the humanist recovery of the corpus of the philosophy of Plato and other philosophers in the Platonic tradition, spearheaded by Marsilio Ficino. But the Cambridge Platonists are not an end-point in the continuity of Platonic philosophy. Rather, they sit at the cusp of modernity, a fruitful conjunction of old and new ideas, the impact of which reverberates through the Enlightenment and beyond. Their role in the English reception of Cartesianism, Spinozism and their anticipation of developments in Newtonianism give them every claim for attention by historians of modern philosophy and science.