The Cambridge Platonists in Philosophical Context: Politics, Metaphysics and Religion

The Cambridge Platonists were defenders of tolerance in the political as well as the moral sphere ; they held that practical j u d g e m e n t came down in the last instance to individual conscience ; and they laid the foundations of our modern conceptions of conscience and liberty. But at the same time they ma intained the existence of eternal truths , and of a Good—in—itself , identical with Truth and Being, refusing to admit that freedom of conscience i m p li e d moral relativism. They ...