Charles Norris Cochrane

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Charles Norris Cochrane (August 21, 1889 – November 23, 1945) was a

philosopher who taught at the University of Toronto.[1][2]
He is known for his writings about the interaction between ancient Rome and emerging Christianity.

Early life and education

Cochrane was born in Omemee, Ontario. He attended the University of Toronto, graduating with a degree in Classics in 1911. He then attended the University of Oxford.[3]

Career

During the First World War, Cochrane was active in the Canadian Officers Training Corps and in 1918 went overseas with the 1st Tank Battalion.[4]

After the war, in 1919, Cochrane joined the Faculty of Ancient History at the University of Toronto.[2]

His

W.H. Auden,[8][9] and it was in addition described by Harold Innis as "the first major Canadian contribution to the intellectual history of the West".[10] In it Cochrane investigated the political and cultural interaction between the Romans and Christians in the early days of Christianity.[11]

In 2017, a new collection of Cochrane's post-humously published writings and collected essays appeared, Augustine and the Problem of Power: The Essays and Lectures of Charles Norris Cochrane.[12] The title essay in this volume was originally delivered as the 1945 Nathaniel W. Taylor Lectures at Yale University Divinity School. Cochrane expressed the opinion that the philosophy of Augustine largely replaced classical Greek philosophy as the dominant intellectual world view.[13]

In his philosophy and historiography, Cochrane was influenced by

Hegelian philosopher James Doull was among his students.[14][15] Political scientist Arthur Kroker
, pointing to Cochrane's writings about the conflict between Christianity and
secular thought, whether Roman or Greek, could not solve for itself," deemed Cochrane "one of the leading 20th-century philosophers of civilization."[2]

Cochraine died November 13, 1945, in Toronto.[17]

References

  1. JSTOR 137337
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  2. ^ a b c Kroker, Arthur. "Charles Norris Cochrane". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
  3. ^ " Obituaries: Charles Norris Cochrane, 1889-1945 H. A. I.". The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science / Revue canadienne d'Economique et de Science politique, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Feb., 1946), pp. 95-97
  4. ^ "Charles Norris Cochrane fonds | UTARMS". utarms.library.utoronto.ca. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
  5. JSTOR 1838425
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  6. ISBN 978-981-4452-71-7
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  7. ISBN 978-0-19-165477-0
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  8. ISBN 9780199704071
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  9. ISBN 978-0-19-818294-8
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  10. ^
    ISBN 9780415252911
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  11. ISBN 978-94-017-2235-3
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  12. ^ "Augustine and the Problem of Power | WipfandStock.com". Wipfandstock.com. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
  13. ISBN 978-0-227-90316-2
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  14. ^ "President's Report 2003 - Publishing". Mun.ca. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  15. doi:10.1353/utq.2005.0036
    . Retrieved 27 November 2017 – via Project MUSE.
  16. ^ Kroker, Arthur. "Augustine as the Founder of Modern Experience: The Legacy of Charles Norris Cochrane". Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory/Revue canadienne de theorie politique et sociale, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Fall/Automne, 1982) .
  17. ^ Phoenix. Vol. 1. University of Toronto Press. 1947.

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