Platonism at the Origins of Modernity

Introduction / Sarah Hutton -- Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464): Platonism at the dawn of modernity / Dermot Moran -- At variance: Marsilio Ficino, Platonism and heresy / Michael J.B. Allen -- Going naked into the shrine: Herbert, Plotinus and the constructive metaphor / Stephen R.L. Clark -- Comenius, light metaphysics and educational reform / Jan Rohls (translated by Alexandra W??rn and David Leech) -- Robert Fludd's Kabbalistic cosmos / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (translated by Geoff Dumbreck and Douglas Hedley) -- Reconciling theory and and fact: the problem of "other faiths" in Lord Herbert and the Cambridge Platonists / David Pailin -- Trinity, community and love: Cudworth's Platonism and the idea of God / Leslie Armour -- Chaos and order in Cudworth's thought / Jean-Louis Breteau -- Cudworth, Prior and Passmore on the autonomy of ethics / Robin Attfield -- Substituting Aristotle: Platonic themes in Dutch Cartesianism / Han van Ruler -- Soul, body and world: Plato's Timaeus and Descartes' Meditations / Catherine Wilson -- Locke, Plato and Platonism / G.A.J. Rogers -- Reflections on Locke's Platonism / Victor Nuovo -- The Platonism at the core of Leibniz's philosophy / Christia Mercer -- Leibniz and Berkeley: Platonic metaphysics and "The Mechanical Philosophy" / Stuart Brown -- Which Platonism for which modernity? a note on Shaftesbury's Socratic sea-cards / Laurent Jaffro -- Platonism, aesthetics and the sublime at the origins of modernity / Douglas Hedley.