biography
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| (1617–88)
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| biography:
| Philosopher and theologian, born in Aller, Somerset, SW England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, where he became a tutor, and leader of the ‘Cambridge Platonists’. He was professor of Hebrew (1645), rector of North Cadbury, Somerset (1650), and Master of Christ's College (1654). His best-known work, The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678), aimed to establish the reality of a supreme divine intelligence against materialism. |
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