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Henry More (1614-1687) was probably the most important English
philosopher between Hobbes and Locke. Described as the 'hammer' of the
Cartesians, More attacked Descartes' conception of spirit as undermining
its very intelligibility. This work, which analyses an episode in the
evolution of the concept of spiritual substance in early modernity,
looks at More's rational theology within the context of the great
seventeenth century Cartesian controversies over spirit, soul-body
interaction, and divine omnipresence. This work argues that More's new,
univocal spirit conception, highly influential upon Newton and Clarke,
contributed unwittingly to a slow secularisation process internal to
theistic culture. It thus fills a lacuna in scholarship by examining how
conceptual changes in early modern metaphysics, as opposed to better
researched transformations in moral philosophy, were an additional
ingredient in the origins of modern speculative atheism. It also
suggests that these controversies are by no means merely of historical
interest but represent a resource for contemporary philosophical
reflection.
Winner of the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise
2013.
