About this book
Henry More’s Democritus Platonissans presents a striking blend of Poetry, Literature, and Philosophy as a 17th‑century riposte to materialist thinking and a passionate defence of spiritual inquiry. Rooted in the Cambridge Platonist tradition, More weaves lyrical verse and reflective prose to explore the existence of God, the nature of the soul, and the limits of purely mechanistic explanations of life. Drawing on his poem Psychozoia and other meditative pieces, he rehearses a vision of reason guided by faith, arguing that spiritual experience and rational thought can be reconciled without surrendering devotional conviction.
Set against the intellectual currents of mid‑seventeenth‑century England, Democritus Platonissans dialogues with atomism and classical philosophy while offering an intimate portrait of a mind committed to metaphysical clarity and moral earnestness. The tone moves between disputation and devotional lyric, making it both argumentative and poetic.
Ideal for listeners who enjoy philosophical poetry, early modern literature, or the history of religious thought, this audiobook invites you to listen slowly—attending to ideas and images that shaped one of the era’s most thoughtful defenders of a spiritually informed reason.
