Walter Bryce Gallie
Walter Bryce Gallie (born October 5, 1912 in Lenzie , † August 31, 1998 in Cardigan ) was a Scottish philosopher.
biography
Walter Bryce Gallie was born in Scotland on October 5, 1912, the son of an engineer. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College and graduated with the best. In 1935 he began his academic career as a lecturer at Swansea University , where he met his future wife, the Welsh writer and translator Menna Gallie . He married her in 1940 and had a son and a daughter with her. From 1940 to 1945 he served as a soldier in World War II and was awarded the Croix de guerre . In 1950 he moved from Swansea to Keele University , where he taught philosophy as a professor, in 1954 he moved to Queen's University Belfast and in 1967 to the University of Cambridge where he taught political science . There he became a fellow at Peterhouse College .
Works
His most famous and still significant work is Essentially Contested Concepts from 1956, which formed the basis for his book Philosophy and the Historical Understanding (1964). "Essentially Contested Concepts" are terms such as "democracy" or "art" that have evolved from a general original meaning and therefore cannot be reduced to a definition . He explained that it makes sense to work out a generally valid understanding of these terms, because the increasing competition for interpretation and interpretative sovereignty leads to the preservation or optimal further development of the original achievement. Gallie, who saw himself as a democratic socialist , saw education as the driving force of social change , which he set out in his books An English School (1949) and A New University: AD Lindsay and the Keele Experiment (1960). In his later works, Philosophers of Peace and War: Kant, Clausewitz, Marx, Engels and Tolstoy (1976) and Understanding War: An Essay on the Nuclear Age (1991), he analyzed war in a philosophical way.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oxfordjournals.org, The Life and Works of Menna Gallie retrieved on December 28 of 2009.
- ^ The Independent, RA Sharpe, Obituary: Professor WB Gallie , September 5, 1998
- ^ A b Stuart C. Brown, Hugh Bredin, The dictionary of twentieth-century British philosophers: AL , Volume 1, A&C Black, 2005, ISBN 978-1-84371-096-7 , p. 305
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gallie, Walter Bryce |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gallie, Walter B. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lenzie , East Dunbartonshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1998 |
| Place of death | Cardigan , Wales |