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John Norris (
1657 -
1711),
philosopher and
poet.
John Norris was born at Collingbourne, Kingston, Wiltshire, 1657. He was educated at Winchester School, and Exeter College, Oxford, gaining a B.A. in 1680. He was later appointed a fellow of All Souls (M.A. 1684). He took orders, and lived a quiet and placid life as a country parson and thinker.
In philosophy he was a
Platonist and
mystic and was an early opponent of
Locke. His poetry, with occasional fine thoughts, is full of far-fetched metaphors and conceits, and isn't seldom dull and prosaic.
From
1692 until his death in
1711, he held
George Herbert's
benefice of
Bemerton,
Wiltshire.
Among his 23 works are
An Idea of Happiness (1683),
Miscellanies (1687),
Theory and Regulation of Love (1688),
An Essay toward the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World (1701-4), and a
Discourse concerning the Immortality of the Soul (1708). His most popular work is
A Collection of Miscellanies, consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses and Letters(1687).
He was an early critic of
John Locke, whose
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) he attacked in
Christian Blessedness or Discourses upon the Beatitudes in the same year; he also combatted Locke's theories in his
Essay toward the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World.
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