The Influence of Abraham Cohen de Herrera in 17th-Century Natural Philosophy: His Impression on Anne Conway’s Principia Philosophiae
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Seventeenth Century, Kabbalah, Neoplatonism, Early Modern PeriodAbstract
Natural Philosophy of the 17th Century shares traits of hermetic-cabalistic mysticism and neoplatonism of the 16th Century. Works presenting this legacy, far from representing isolated cases, constitute the intelectual magma in which many of the debates which signed modern science were gestated. One of the paradigmatic representation of this stream is Anne Conway, who in her Principia Philosophiae attacks the Cartesian mechanism and dualism, supporting herself in monistic and espiritualistic doctrins of the matter that she takes directly from Isaac Luria´s cabalistic tradition represented by Abraham Cohen de Herrera and his Puerta del Cielo.
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