Henry More (1614–1687) bestrijder van Spinoza 400 jaar geleden geboren
Op dit moment is Alan Gabbey (filosofieprofessor aan het Barnard
College, Columbia University) bezig met zijn lezing, getiteld: “Philosophia
Spinozana Destructa: Henry More (1671-1679)” [cf.]
Dit gebeurt op een conferentie die wordt gehouden n.a.v. van More’s 400e geboortedag. De en.wikipedia laat zien dat hij op 12 oktober 1614 geboren werd, maar verder – zoals zo vaak gebeurt – wordt er niets over zijn preoccupatie met Spinoza vermeld. More was een van de beroemde zgn. Cambridge Platonists.
Al ruim 6 jaar geleden had ik over hem dit gevonden in de Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
"More wrote two short attacks on Spinoza, one against the Tractatus theologico-politicus (1670), which More read in 1677, and one against the “two pillars” of Spinoza's atheism, the necessary existence of substance and that there is only one substance. However, he seems to have written them both hurriedly as he was preparing the Latin translations of his works for inclusion in the second and third volumes of his Opera omnia in 1679 (volume 1 had already appeared in 1675). Indeed, he told Anne Conway that he “could not forbeare” from confuting Spinoza while he was still in the process of reading him. Both of these critiques of Spinoza, were included at the end of volume two and there is little evidence that they made any impression." [hier]
