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Samuel M. Kaldas, The Cambridge Platonists and Early Modern Philosophy: Inventing the Philosophy of Religion, Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp., $110.00 (hbk) ISBN 9781009426916.

Reviewed by Marleen Rozemond, University of Toronto

Samuel Kaldas’s book is an extremely welcome addition to the growing literature on the Cambridge Platonists. These philosophers have suffered from significant neglect by historians of philosophy, but as a result of the recent interest in lesser known early modern thinkers, this has been changing. Two questions are central to Kaldas’s book: (1) Is the term “Cambridge Platonists” an apt label for the philosophers in question? And (2) What is their significance in the history of philosophy? Contrary to some scholars (19-20), Kaldas convincingly argues that the label is warranted for Henry More, Ralph Cudworth, and the less well-known...