Francis Bowen
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Charlestown, Massachusetts | |
Died | January 22, 1890 (aged 78) Boston |
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Francis Bowen (
Biography
He was born in
In 1850 he was appointed McLean professor of history at Harvard, but his appointment was disapproved by the board of overseers on account of political opinions he had expressed concerning the
In the winter of 1850, Bowen lectured again before the Lowell Institute on political economy, and in 1852 on the origin and development of the English and American constitutions. In 1853, on the election of James Walker to the presidency of Harvard, Bowen was appointed his successor as Alford professor of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity. This time the appointment was approved almost unanimously by the overseers, and he occupied the chair until 1889.[3] After 1858, he lectured before the Lowell Institute on the English metaphysicians and philosophers from Francis Bacon to Sir William Hamilton.
In 1876 he was a member of the United States Silver Commission which was appointed to consider currency reform. In 1877, he wrote the minority report in which he opposed the restoration of the double standard and the remonetization of silver.[3] In 1888, he was asked to endorse the Republican Party's tariff platform, but replied by publishing an article (Nation, November 8, 1888) denouncing the current tariff as tyranny.[1]
In philosophy and metaphysics, Bowen upheld the views of
According to Quinton
He died in
Works
- Lives of James Otis (1846) and Benjamin Lincoln (1847) in Jared Sparks's Library of American Biography
- Virgil, with English Notes (Boston, 1842)
- Critical Essays on the History and Present Condition of Speculative Philosophy (Boston, 1842)
- Lectures on the "Application of Metaphysical and Ethical Science to the Evidences of Religion" (Lowell Institute Lectures, 1849; revised ed. 1855)
- Lectures on Political Economy (1850)
- Dugald Stewart, Philosophy of the Human Mind, editor (1854)
- Documents of the Constitution of England and America, from Magna Charta to the Federal Constitution of 1789 (Cambridge, 1854)
- The Principles of Political Economy applied to the Condition, Resources and Institutions of the American People (1856)
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Henry Reeve, tr., revised edition (2 vols., Cambridge, 1862)[10]
- A Treatise on Logic (1864)
- American Political Economy, with remarks on the finances since the beginning of the Civil War (1870)
- Modern Philosophy from 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)
- A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation authored by Robert Chambers in 1844' (1845)
See also
- American philosophy
- List of American philosophers
- Mary Traill Spence Lowell Putnam
Notes
- ^ a b c Ernest Sutherland Bates (1930). "Bowen, Francis". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- ^ . (subscription required)
- ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911.
- ISBN 978-0-300-02413-5.
- ^ "The War of Races in Hungary". North American Review. 70 (146): 78–136. January 1850.
- ^ "The Rebellion of the Slavonic, Wallachian, and German Hungarians against the Magyars". North American Review. 72 (150): 205–249. January 1851.
- ^ Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
- New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- ^ Anthony Quinton, ‘Harvard Philosophy,’ in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. T Honderich (Oxford: University Press, 1995), 335-336.
- ^ de Tocqueville, Alexis (1863). Bowen, Francis (ed.). Democracy in America. Vol. I. Translated by Reeve, Henry (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Sever and Francis. Retrieved 26 May 2023 – via Internet Archive.;de Tocqueville, Alexis (1864). Bowen, Francis (ed.). Democracy in America. Vol. II. Translated by Reeve, Henry (4th ed.). Cambridge: Sever and Francis. Retrieved 26 May 2023 – via Internet Archive.
References
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bowen, Francis". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 342. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
External links
- Works by Francis Bowen at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Francis Bowen at Internet Archive
- The Study of History in American Colleges and Universities, by Herbert Baxter Adams, article on Francis Bowen books.google.com