Francis Bowen (philosopher)
Francis Bowen (born September 8, 1811 in Charlestown , Massachusetts , † January 21, 1890 in Boston , Massachusetts) was an American philosopher and educator.
Life
Bowen attended as a student of Benjamin Abbot the Phillips Exeter Academy and studied from 1830 to 1833 at Harvard College . After graduating there, he first worked at the Phillips Exeter Academy before becoming a lecturer at Harvard from 1835. From 1839 to 1841 Bowen toured Europe and met Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi and Joseph Marie Degérando, among others . He subsequently gave lectures at the Lowell Institute in Boston, among others . Bowen's appointment to a Harvard professorship for history failed in 1850 due to a previous dispute with the editor and historian Robert Carter about the Hungarian Revolution of 1848/1849 . In 1853, Bowen succeeded James Walker in Harvard Alford as professor of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity , and he held the professorship until he retired in 1889.
Bowen was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1842 . From 1843 to 1854 he was editor of the North American Review .
The Philosophy Department at Harvard University awards a Francis Bowen Prize for the best essay in moral philosophy or political philosophy.
Fonts
- Virgil, with English Notes (Bosten, 1842)
- Critical Essays on the History and Present Condition of Speculative Philosophy (Boston, 1842)
- Lowell Institute Lectures (1849; revised ed., 1855)
- Abridged edition of Dugald Stewart's Philosophy of the Human Mind (1854)
- Documents of the Constitution of England and America, from Magna Charta to the Federal Constitution of 1789 (Cambridge, 1854)
- Brief biographies of Steuben , Otis , and Benjamin Lincoln , in Sparks' American Biography
- Principles of Political Economy, applied to the Condition, Resources, and Institutions of the American People (Boston, 1856)
- Revised edition of Reeves' translation of De Tocquevilles Democracy in America (2 volumes, Cambridge, 1862)
- Treatise on Logic (1864)
- American Political Economy with remarks on the finances since the beginning of the civil war (New York, 1870)
- Modern Philosophy, from Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann (1877)
- Gleanings from a Literary Life, 1838-1880 (1880)
- A Layman's Study of the English Bible, considered in its Literary and Secular Aspect (1886)
literature
- Bowen, Francis . In: Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . 1900 ( wikisource.org ).
- Bowen, Francis . In: The New International Encyclopædia . 1905 ( wikisource.org ).
- Bowen, Francis . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 1911 ( wikisource.org ).
- R. Douglas Geivett: Bowen, Francis . In: American National Biography . doi : 10.1093 / anb / 9780198606697.article.2000096 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved April 27, 2020 (English).
- ^ Prize Descriptions. In: harvard.edu. Harvard University , accessed April 27, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bowen, Francis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American philosopher and educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charlestown , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1890 |
| Place of death | Boston , Massachusetts |