ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights distinct strands of Rational Dissent, and they exhibit remarkably different conceptions of reason. Israel's division of moderate and radical Enlightenments is therefore rendered too neat. Price and Priestley's metaphysics are diametrically opposed. The two Enlightenments of moderate two-substance dualism and radical one-substance monism cannot therefore be so easily identified. Price's dualism and rationalism represents a development of a Cambridge Platonist tradition of thought woven into the phenomenon known as Rational Dissent. For Price, as for the Platonic tradition from which he borrows, there was no strict dichotomy between the rational and spiritual because the spiritual is the highest form of the rational. The value of Price's intuitionism is that it points towards a morality that is a quality of insight and an account of perception that is grounded very much in a commitment to the idea of the good and to a religious world view.
