biography
pronunciation:
[moor]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1614–87)
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| biography:
| Philosopher and theologian, born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, EC England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, where he remained all his life, and became a leading figure in the circle of ‘Cambridge Platonists’ which included Whichcote and Cudworth. He devoted himself entirely to study, despite the turbulent political times in which he lived, and developed a particular affinity for Plato, Plotinus, and Descartes. He wrote in prose and verse, his main works being Philosophical Poems (1647), The Immortality of the Soul (1659), and Divine Dialogues (1668). |
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