The psychological aspects in political ideas of the cambridge platonists as an alternative to 17th century global thinking

Abstract

Political aspects in Cambridge XVII century are viewed through presenting some of the ideas typical of the Cambridge Platonists. These aspects are taken into consideration to reveal some core psychological principles the Cambridge Platonists defended in ideological clashes and debates. These principles are typical of the Cambridge Platonists and some other platinizing philosophers. To reveal these principles the researchers’ position should be viewed through somewhat psychological optics, which leads to internalists’ approach that might cause the use of some other kind of notions and of logic. It would be apt to trace some battle for gaining access to these psychological structures by taking into consideration not only some modern political situation but some historically defined and even partly forgotten debates between the representatives of the old church views and the representatives of the new scientific approach in Europe taking into consideration some thinkers in the XVII century England clashing in political but first of all philosophical debates concerning the human nature and the ways it should be treated both theoretically and practically. The defended principles should be regarded as modern ones, despite the fact the XVIIth century theological debates concerning political aspects are deemed obsolete. The political level is a necessary measuring device to test metaphysical and scientific ideas of the Cambridge divines.