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More´s centrality in seventeenth-century metaphysics is undisputed. This sustained examination of More´s own highly systematic philosophy offers readers a rounded assessment and provides fresh insights thus far missed in the secondary literature.

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The book surveys the key metaphysical contributions of the Cambridge Platonist, Henry More (1614-1687). It deals with such interwoven topics as: the natures of body and spirit, and the question of whether or not there is a sharp ontological division between them; the nature of spatial extension in relation to each; the composition and governance of the physical world, including More´s theories of Hyle, atoms, vacuum, and the Spirit of Nature; and the life of the human soul, including its pre-existence. It approaches these topics and the systematic connections between them both historically and analytically, and seeks to do justice to the ways in which More´s system developed and changed-sometimes quite dramatically-over the course of his long career. It also explores More´s intellectual relations with both his own inspirations (Plotinus, Origen, Ficino, Descartes, etc.) and with those who responded, whether positively or negatively, to his work (Leibniz, Locke, Boyle, Newton, etc.).

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"Reid´s book is the first comprehensive study of Henry More as a metaphysician, attentive to the broad picture as well as to fine details. As such, it is to be saluted as a great achievement in the field of the history of early modern philosophy ... . Reid has also performed a great service to readers, for his book is written in a clear and compelling style ... ." (Guido Giglioni, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 54 (3), July, 2016)

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Jasper Reid studied philosophy at Cambridge and Princeton, and is now a lecturer in philosophy at King´s College London. His main area of research is in the history of philosophy of the early modern period, particularly on the metaphysical and epistemological side. He has written on a number of figures from that period, including Henry More, Descartes, Malebranche, Berkeley and Jonathan Edwards; and on a number of themes, including space, immaterialism, and early modern philosophy of mathematics.

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