Abstract

STROK, Natalia. La unidad de la sustancia inmaterial en Ralph Cudworth. Tópicos [online]. 2021, n.42, pp.216-242. ISSN 1666-485X.

In this paper I intend to show that the immaterial substance has a fundamental role in the harmonic universe of Ralph Cudworth (1617-1688), noted member of the Cambridge Platonists group of the 17th Century. This substance is not separated from the material one, and receives different names according to its functions, as it is the only vital force in creation, founded in the divine nature. This means that plastic nature and souls are only different names for the only immaterial substance in the created universe. This is another kind of dualism than the cartesian one, which shows consequences in a physical level. In order to do this, first, I will present Cudworth’s metaphysics, and then I will concentrate on the immaterial substance. For this I will use his main work The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) and his posthumous writings: Treatise concerning eternal and immutable Morality (1731) y Treatise on Freewill (1838).

Keywords : Ralph Cudworth; Dualism; Plastic nature; Soul; Immaterial substance.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )