Hastings Rashdall
Hastings Rashdall | |
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Born | London, England | 24 June 1858
Died | 9 February 1924 Worthing, England | (aged 65)
Spouse |
Constance (m. 1905) |
Ecclesiastical career | |
Church | Church of England |
Ordained | |
Offices held | Dean of Carlisle (1917–1924) |
Academic background | |
moral philosophy | |
School or tradition | |
Institutions | |
Notable works | The Theory of Good and Evil (1907) |
Notable ideas | Ideal utilitarianism |
Influenced | Henry Herbert Symonds |
Hastings Rashdall
Biography
Born in
The dedication is appropriate, for the particular version of utilitarianism put forward by Rashdall owes elements to both Green and Sidgwick.[7] Whereas he holds that the concepts of good and value are logically prior to that of right, he gives right a more than instrumental significance. His idea of good owes more to Green than to the hedonistic utilitarians. "The ideal of human life is not the mere juxtaposition of distinct goods, but a whole in which each good is made different by the presence of others." Rashdall has been eclipsed as a moral philosopher by G. E. Moore, who advocated similar views in his earlier work Principia Ethica (1903). Rashdall was also a Berkeleyan, believing in metaphysical idealism.
His historical study, The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages,[9] was described in the introduction to its recent reprinting as "one of the first comparative works on the subject" whose "scope and breadth has assured its place as a key work in intellectual history."
His The Idea of Atonement in Christian Theology surveyed different approaches to the Christian doctrine of
Rashdall received the degree Doctor of Letters (DL) from New College, Oxford, in October 1901.[11]
He was president of the
He was Dean of Carlisle from 1917 to 1924, and died of cancer in Worthing[13] on 9 February 1924.[14] He is buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford.
Selected works
- Rashdall, Hastings (2010) [1895]. The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages, 2 vols. in 3 parts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [orig. Oxford: Clarendon Press]. ISBN 978-1-108-01813-5.
- Doctrine and Development: University Sermons (1898)
- New College (with Robert Rait, 1901)
- Christus in Ecclesia: Sermons on the Church and Its Institutions (1904)
- The Theory of Good and Evil (1907)
- Ethics (undated)
- Philosophy and Religion (1910)
- Is Conscience an Emotion? Three Lectures on Recent Ethical Theories (1914)
- Conscience and Christ: Six Lectures on Christian Ethics (1916)
- The Idea of Atonement in Christian Theology (London: Macmillan, 1919)
- The Moral Argument for Personal Immortality in King's College Lectures on Immortality (1920)
- God and Man 1930
See also
References
Footnotes
- ^ Rayner 2005, p. 13.
- ^ Jackson & Gilmore 1953, p. 390.
- ^ Rayner 2005, p. 4.
- ^ Rayner 2005, p. 239.
- ^ Rayner 2005, pp. 2, 9.
- ^ Garnett 2004, where Rashdall's The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages is referred to as "a standard work."
- ^ a b Garnett 2004.
- ^ "Rashdall, Very Rev. Hastings" 2007.
- ^ "Review of The European Universities of the Middle Ages, by Hastings Rashdall". The Quarterly Review. Vol. 183. April 1896. pp. 445–472. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
- ^ Rashdall 1919, pp. 437–447.
- ^ "University Intelligence". The Times. No. 36589. London. 18 October 1901. p. 4.
- ^ Matheson 1928, p. 115.
- ^ "Dean Rashdall". The Times. No. 43572. London. 11 February 1924. p. 17.
- ^ Matheson 1928, p. 230.
Bibliography
- Garnett, Jane (2004). "Rashdall, Hastings (1858–1924)". .
- Jackson, Samuel Macauley; Gilmore, George William, eds. (1953). The New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Vol. 9. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
- Matheson, P. E. (1928). The Life of Hastings Rashdall, D.D.
- Postle, Dorothy; Marsh, Margaret (2000). Hastings Rashdall: Dean of Carlisle, 1917–1924.
- Rashdall, Hastings (1919). The Idea of Atonement in Christian Theology. London: Macmillan and Co.
- "Rashdall, Very Rev. Hastings". ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1.
- Rayner, Margaret J. (2005). The Theology of Hastings Rashdall: A Study of His Part in Theological Debates During His Lifetime (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Gloucestershire.