Alfred Cyril Ewing

Alfred Cyril Ewing (born May 11, 1899 in Leicester , † May 14, 1973 in Manchester ) was a British philosopher.

Ewing studied at University College in Oxford . He taught for four years in Swansea and from 1931 on moral science in Cambridge . From 1954 he gave lectures on moral science.

Ewing believed that studying the history of philosophy is important to philosophical practice.

He defended traditional metaphysics and developed what could be termed analytical idealism.

From 1941 to 1942 was the President of the Aristotelian Society .

literature

• Brand Blanshard: Alfred Cyril Ewing. 1899-1973. Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 48 (1974-1975), 171f.

Works

• Alfred Cyril Ewing: Value and Reality: The Philosophical Case for Theism . London: George Allen & Unwin 1973
• Alfred Cyril Ewing: Non-linguistic Philosophy London: George Allen & Unwin 1968
• Alfred Cyril Ewing: Second Thoughts in Moral Philosophy . London 1959
• Alfred Cyril Ewing: The Idealist Tradition: From Berkeley to Blanshard . London 1957
• Alfred Cyril Ewing: Ethics . London 1953
• Alfred Cyril Ewing: The Fundamental Questions of Philosophy . London: Routledge 1951
• Alfred Cyril Ewing: The Definition of Good . London: Routledge 1947
• Alfred Cyril Ewing: The Individual, the State, and World Government . New York: Macmillan 1947
• Alfred Cyril Ewing: Reason and Intuition . London 1941
• Alfred Cyril Ewing: A Short Commentary on Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" . London 1938
• Alfred Cyril Ewing: Idealism: A Critical Survey New York 1936
• Alfred Cyril Ewing: The Morality of Punishment . London 1929
• Alfred Cyril Ewing: Kant's Treatment of Causality . London 1924

Online reference

• Bernd Goebel :  Alfred Cyril Ewing. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 31, Bautz, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8 , Sp. 414-424.
• Alfred Cyril Ewing, ethics. An introduction, edited with an introduction and translated by Bernd Goebel, Hamburg (Felix Meiner) 2014