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Ralph Cudworth

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English clergyman, theologian, philosopher, and Cambridge Platonist (1617–88)

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Born
1617
Died
1688
Works
55

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  • Gwirionedd a grym duwioldeb
  • A commentarie or exposition, vpon the fiue first chapters of the Epistle to the Galatians
  • Piety without asceticism
  • Bibliotheca Cudworthiana; sive, Catalogus variorum librorum plurimis facultatibus
  • A discourse concerning the evidences of our knowing Christ

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Quotes

  • The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart is once turned into a conformity with the mind of God. when we feel our will conformed to His will, we shall then presently perceive a spirit of adoption within ourselves, teaching us to say, "Abba, Father."
  • The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
  • Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigour and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
  • Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.
  • If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.

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date of death
1688-06-26
date of birth
1617-01-01
IPA transcription
ˈreɪf ˈkʊdɜːrθ
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