Bernard Bosanquet

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Bernard Bosanquet.

Bernard Bosanquet (born June 14, 1848 in Rock Hall near Alnwick , † February 8, 1923 in London ) was a British philosopher. Bosanquet taught at Oxford University ; 1903-1908 he was professor of moral philosophy in Saint Andrews . Along with Thomas Hill Green and FH Bradley , Bosanquet was one of the most important exponents of New Hegelianism and British idealism in England.

Bosanquet was the son of a pastor of Huguenot descent. He studied 1866-1870 at Balliol College , Oxford. From 1871 to 1881 he taught Greek history and philosophy there. Together with John Henry Muirhead , he founded the London Ethical Society in London in 1881 . Bosanquet was also active in the social field and worked with the charity organization Society . In 1903 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy .

His brother Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet was an astronomer, his brother Day Bosanquet an admiral.

Works

  • Knowledge and reality. A criticism of Mr. FH Bradley's Principles of logic (1885)
  • Logic or the morphology of knowledge , 2 volumes (1888)
  • A history of aesthetic (1892)
Review by James Sully . Mind (NS) 2 (1893) 110 - 117
  • The philosophical theory of the state (1899)
  • The principle of individuality and value . The Gifford Lectures for 1911, delivered in Edinburgh University (1912)
  • The value and destiny of the individual . The Gifford Lectures for 1912 (1913).

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Remarks

  1. Cf. en: Charity Organization Society
  2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 7, 2020 .