Cudworth and More on Immaterial Extension: A New Text with Analysis

Henry More famously argues that all substances are extended, body and spirit alike. In The True Intellectual System of the Universe, More’s friend fellow Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth notes position but refrains from criticizing it. By contrast, in a passage one Cudworth’s unpublished manuscripts has escaped scholarly attention is included here as an appendix, addresses directly, raising objections against view responding to two arguments. My aim this paper provide detailed analysis response passage.