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Featuring a key note address by Simon May, author of 'Love A History', and a panel discussion between Sir Roger Scruton, John Cottingham, Simon May, and Douglas Hedley.The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism collaborated with CRAASH, from whom Centre fellow Dr. James Bryson was awarded conference funding, to host the  'The Ontology of Love'…

Workshop about the works of Joseph Beaumont and Henry More.On the 2nd of May the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism hosted a workshop on the controversy surrounding Henry More’s Grand Mystery of Godliness, spearheaded by High Churchmen like Joseph Beaumont, Master of Peterhouse, who attacked More for his doctrine of the pre-existence of th…

Workshop devoted to the Latin works of Henry More.From the 10 to 11th of May the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism, together with the Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, held its third  conference on the Opera Omnia (1679) of Henry More in Bochum. The event was organised by Benedikt Goecke, Christian Hengstermann and Douglas Hedley. The conference …

£225,973.27 awarded to the Centre as part of Dr Corrias' Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant.The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism has been awarded £225,973.27 as part of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant. The Primary Investigator is Professor Douglas Hedley, and the grant will fund Dr Anna Corrias' research from 1 September 2019 until 31 August 20…

The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science has awarded a multi-year grant "Living Ideas: Dynamic Philosophies of Life and Matter, 1650–1850", which the Centre is collaborating in.The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science is awarding a multi-year grant to "Living Ideas: Dynamic Philosophies of Life and Matter, 1650–1850", an international p…

A British Academy funded conference devoted to the sources, reception, and thought of the Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth.Centre Fellow Dr. Adrian Mihai hosted the conference 'Ralph Cudworth at the Crossroads of Modernity', 11 March 2019, with funds won as part of his post-doctoral fellowship from The British Academy. The Conference, which coinc…

A day-long workshop investigating human dignity in collaboration with members of the EU funded 'The History of Human Freedom and Dignity in Western Civilisation' project.The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism hosted the workshop 'Early Christian Origins of the Human Rights Tradition? Exploring Patristic Concepts of Individuality and Freedo…

The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism proudly hosted Prof. Anders-Christian Jacobsen (Aarhus) for his Beierwaltes Lecture, 'The Image and Likeness of God: Human Dignity in Origen', Monday, 4 March 2019. The lecture moved from Origen's understanding of the creation of humanity, to the notion of the inner and outer human, and considered the…

It is with great sadness that the Centre announces the repose of Prof. Dr. Werner Beierwaltes, who passed away on 22 February 2018. May his memory be eternal!

Three Symposia: Plato, Philo and John - An Exercise in TriangulationProf. George van Kooten, member of the Centre's Steering Committee, gave his inaugural lecture as the Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, 'Three Symposia: Plato, Philo and John - An Exercise in Triangulation', on 19 February 2019. Below is a recording of the event.

The Cambridge Platonist Research Group, which consists of Centre Members Prof. Douglas Hedley, Dr. David Leech, Dr. James Bryson, and Dr. Marilyn Lewis, went, with Centre member Prof. Thomas Hanke to the Royal Society on 21 January to view the newly identified portrait of the Cambridge Platonist Henry More and to look at a manuscript containing Mor…

The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism proudly hosted Prof. Ilaria Ramelli on 19 January for Colloquium Adamantianum III, which reflected on themes that emerge throughout her work. In a series of seminal articles and monographs, including a monumental study on The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis, Ilaria Ramelli has defended the thesis …

The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism proudly hosted the Deus Ludens workshop, 12 January 2019. This day-long workshop focused on the themes of creation and play in both the Christian and Indian religious traditions. The workshop featured presentations given by Prof. Bernard McGinn (U. Chicago), Prof. Francis Clooney (Harvard U.), Prof. R…

The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism, in collaboration with Ralston College, hosted a conversation between Dr. Jordan Peterson and Sir Roger Scruton, moderated by Dr. Stephen Blackwood and introduced by Professor Douglas Hedley, on 2 November 2018 in Cambridge, England.Here is a recording of the discussion:

The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism, together with Lehrstuhl für Religionsphilosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie Bochum, hosted a workshop on the Latin works of Henry More at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 30 November - 1 December. In attendance and giving presentations were the Centre's Director, Prof. Douglas Hedley, Fellows of the Centre Dr.…