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Read more at: Book Launch | Mateusz Stróżyński, 'Plotinus on the Contemplation of the Intelligible World' | 28th January 2025
Book Launch | Mateusz Stróżyński, 'Plotinus on the Contemplation of the Intelligible World' | 28th January 2025

Book Launch | Mateusz Stróżyński, 'Plotinus on the Contemplation of the Intelligible World' | 28th January 2025

20 December 2024

On Tuesday 28th January 2025, the Centre will host a launch event for Mateusz Stróżyński's new volume, Plotinus on the Contemplation of the Intelligible World: Faces of Being and Mirrors of Intellect . This event will take place in the Runcie Room of the Faculty of Divinity, beginning at 5:30pm. It can be joined remotely...


Read more at: Seminar | Neoplatonic Texts: Plotinus' Ennead I.8
Seminar | Neoplatonic Texts: Plotinus' Ennead I.8

Seminar | Neoplatonic Texts: Plotinus' Ennead I.8

7 October 2024

This term, the Centre's Neoplatonism reading seminar will study Ennead I.8, in which Plotinus discusses the nature and origin of evils. This seminar will take place on Thursdays, 9-10:30 (UK time). For more information and how to join, please contact Ben Davidson ( bcd31@cam.ac.uk ).


Read more at: Seminar | Hadi Fakhoury & Douglas Hedley: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Seminar | Hadi Fakhoury & Douglas Hedley: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

Seminar | Hadi Fakhoury & Douglas Hedley: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

7 October 2024

The Phenomenology of Spirit is perhaps the most decisive text in the history of German idealism. It was in this text that Hegel achieved, albeit in a provisional form, the structure of his mature thought that has come to be known as Absolute Idealism. It was this Absolute Idealism that furnished a point of critique for...


Read more at: Book Launch | Anthony O'Hear, 'The Prism of Truth | 14th October 2024
Book Launch | Anthony O'Hear, 'The Prism of Truth | 14th October 2024

Book Launch | Anthony O'Hear, 'The Prism of Truth | 14th October 2024

4 October 2024

On Monday 14th October, the Centre will host a launch event for Prof. Anthony O'Hear's new volume, The Prism of Truth: Reflections on Myth . Further details of the volume can be found here: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666781014/the-prism-of-truth/#:~:text=After... . This event will take place in the Lightfoot Room of the...


Read more at: Workshop | Cambridge Cabbalism | 24th October 2024
Workshop | Cambridge Cabbalism | 24th October 2024

Workshop | Cambridge Cabbalism | 24th October 2024

4 October 2024

On Thursday 24th October 2024, the Centre will host a workshop entitled 'Cambridge Cabbalism', exploring the interactions of the seventeeth-century Cambridge Platonists with the Cabbalistic tradition. This event will take place in the Runcie Room. The programme is here: cc_programme_-2.pdf cc_programme_-2.pdf Participants...


Read more at: Talk | Curtis White, 'C.S. Lewis’s Via Positiva and T.S. Eliot’s Via Negativa' | 18th November 2024
Talk | Curtis White, 'C.S. Lewis’s Via Positiva and T.S. Eliot’s Via Negativa' | 18th November 2024

Talk | Curtis White, 'C.S. Lewis’s Via Positiva and T.S. Eliot’s Via Negativa' | 18th November 2024

4 October 2024

On Monday 18th November 2024, the Centre will host Dr Curtis White, who will give a talk, 'C.S. Lewis’s Via Positiva and T.S. Eliot’s Via Negativa: Two Writers Divided by a Common Faith'. This event will take place in the Runcie Room of the Faculty of Divinity, beginning at 5pm (UK time). The talk can be joined remotely...


Read more at: Talk | Philippe Barthelet, 'Ralph Cudworth's Hermeticism' | 4th November 2024
Talk | Philippe Barthelet, 'Ralph Cudworth's Hermeticism' | 4th November 2024

Talk | Philippe Barthelet, 'Ralph Cudworth's Hermeticism' | 4th November 2024

4 October 2024

On Monday 4th November 2024, the Centre will host Dr Philippe Barthelet, who will give a talk, 'Ralph Cudworth's Hermeticism'. This event will take place in the Runcie Room of the Faculty of Divinity, beginning at 5pm (UK time). The talk can be joined remotely via this Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83321325592 In...


Read more at: Seminar | Anne Käfer & Douglas Hedley: Redemption in Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Theology
Seminar | Anne Käfer & Douglas Hedley: Redemption in Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Theology

Seminar | Anne Käfer & Douglas Hedley: Redemption in Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Theology

25 September 2024

This Michaelmas term, Prof. Anne Käfer, DAAD visiting scholar, and Prof. Douglas Hedley will lead a series of six seminars on the nineteenth-century German philosopher and theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher. The seminar, which is titled: 'Redemption. A contemporary question theme explored through Friedrich Schleiermacher’...


Read more at: New Publication | Ilaria Ramelli, 'Origen, the Philosophical Theologian'
New Publication | Ilaria Ramelli, 'Origen, the Philosophical Theologian'

New Publication | Ilaria Ramelli, 'Origen, the Philosophical Theologian'

25 September 2024

This collection of Prof. Ilaria L.E. Ramelli's published articles, dedicated to Werner Beierwaltes, focuses on Origen as a philosophical theologian, considering his protology, Trinitology, Christology, and reception. The collection is enriched by an introduction and two substantial new articles. More information can be...


Read more at: News | Centre Associate Dr. Andreea-Maria Lemnaru Espuna awarded ESPRIT fellowship for 'Cosmic Sympathy in Neoplatonism'

News | Centre Associate Dr. Andreea-Maria Lemnaru Espuna awarded ESPRIT fellowship for 'Cosmic Sympathy in Neoplatonism'

15 July 2024

picture_1.jpg Dr. Andreea-Maria Lemnaru Espuna (PhD in Philosophy, Paris Sorbonne University) has been awarded a fellowship funded by the Austrian Science Fund at the University of Vienna as the Principal Investigator of the research project ‘Cosmic Sympathy in Neoplatonism’ - ESP-693. This project’s goal is to emphasize...


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Workshop | 'An Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists' | 25th-26th April 2025

19 April 2025

The University of Münster in collaboration with the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism is hosting a workshop on the recent volume An Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists , edited by Douglas Hedley and Christian Hengstermann (Routledge, 2024). This event will begin with a public lecture by Douglas Hedley on the...

New Publications from Centre Members

8 March 2025

Two new publications by Centre members, published by the Prometheus Trust. Harold Tarrant’s monograph, Chaerephon: Rethinking Platonic Characters in the Light of the Derveni Papyrus examines the significance of minor characters in the dialogues of Plato in the light of recent advances in our understanding of the Orphic...

Talk | Sean McGrath, 'The Soul of Nature: Boehme / Schelling / Jung' | 11th March 2025

5 March 2025

On Tuesday 11th March 2025, the Centre will host Prof. Sean McGrath, who will give a talk, 'The Soul of Nature: Boehme / Schelling / Jung'. This event will take place in the Runcie Room of the Faculty of Divinity, beginning at 5pm (UK time). The talk can be joined remotely via this Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/...

Conference | Theosis | 9th-10th June 2025

7 February 2025

On Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th June 2025, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism will host a conference on the theme of 'Theosis'. As this year marks the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea, this event will explore this crucial aspect of theology and philosophy through Christian history, and in...

Talk | John Vervaeke, 'Awakening from the Meaning Crisis'

30 January 2025

On Tuesday 4th March 2025, the Centre will host Dr John Vervaeke, who will give a talk, 'Awakening from the Meaning Crisis'. This event will take place in the Runcie Room of the faculty of Divinity, from 1-3pm (UK time). The talk can be joined via this Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83321325592