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On Monday 27th January 2025, the Centre will host Dr Catherine Dromelet, who will give a talk, 'The Language of Transcendence: David Hartley's moral psychology of self-annihilation '. 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://us06w…

The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism is proud to announce the publication of a new volume exploring the philosophical history of the concept of participation from antiquity to modernity: Participation in the Divine, edited by Prof. Douglas Hedley and Dr Daniel J. Tolan. The concept of participation in a transcendent domain of existence i…

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 via the following link: https…

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). 

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 various 19th-century authors …

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%20considering%20the%20limitations%20of,to%20taking%20religious%20mythologies%20seriously…

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: Participants will be able to join remotely via the following Zoom link:https://u…

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 via this Zoom link:https://u…

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/83321325592In addition, on Tuesday 5th Novem…

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’s theology’, will be condu…

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 found at the publisher's page…

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 the value of the Platonic tradition in ad…

On Saturday 14th September, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism will host a conference devoted to the influence of Neoplatonism on Owen Barfield. This event will take place in the Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity. Owen Barfield had been interested in Neoplatonism throughout his long life. One of the aspects of his vehement criticism …

This event has now passed; recordings of talks given can be found here---On 11th-12th September 2025, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism will host a conference 'The Logos in the Platonic Tradition'. The event will be organised by Mateusz Stróżyński (Director of the Institute of Classical Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University) and Dougl…

The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism is proud to announce the publication of the first in the Peeters series The Latin Works of Henry More: Centre Associate Christian Hengstermann's new volume, Critique of the Teutonic Philosophy and Other Writings against Jacob Böhme. 'The first volume of the series assembles More’s writings against the…