James Seth
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James Seth (1860–1925) was a Scottish philosopher. His older brother was
George Watsons College. He was a student of Alexander Campbell Fraser and Henry Calderwood, and won two scholarships. He then went on to Divinity and ordination via a theology degree at New College, Edinburgh
.
In 1898, he took the Chair of
Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh which he occupied for 26 years. During most of this time, the corresponding Chair of Logic and Metaphysics was occupied by his brother Andrew Seth Pringle - Pattison. James's inaugural lecture on "The Scottish Contribution to Moral Philosophy" was subsequently published in The Philosophical Review
, the journal he had edited. Seth was an active campaigner on temperance and education. He died in July 1925.
Publications
- A Study of Ethical Principles. Blackwood and Charles Scribner, 1894
- Essays in Ethics and Religion with other papers William Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1926.
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