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More, Henry (1614–1687)| English philosopher, theologian, and member of the Cambridge Platonists. He denied René Descartes's division of mind and matter (Cartesian dualism), maintaining that mind or spirit had extension in space. Mind or spirit could penetrate material objects, and was the only cause of motion in things, and the only cause (as the soul) of actions by people. |
| More was born in Grantham and educated at Cambridge. He took orders, but declined all preferment (including two deaneries and a bishopric), devoting himself instead to the study of Plato and his followers. |
| His works include Philosophical Poems 1647 and Divine Dialogues 1660. |
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