John Norris

John Norris (born 1657, CollingbourneKingston, Wiltshire, Eng.—died 1711, Bemerton, Wiltshire) was an Anglican priest and philosopher remembered as an exponent of Cambridge Platonism, a 17th-century revival of Plato’s ideas, and as the sole English follower of the French Cartesian philosopher Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715). Norris was elected a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, in 1680. In 1689 he was named vicar of Newton St. Loe in Somerset, and two years later he was transferred to...