Thomas Whittaker (metaphysician)
Thomas Whittaker | |
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Dublin Royal College of Science Exeter College, Oxford | |
| Occupation(s) | Metaphysician, critic |
Thomas Whittaker (25 September 1856 – 3 October 1935) was an English metaphysician and critic.
Biography
Whittaker was educated at
Rationalist Press Association.[2]
Whittaker was an advocate of the Christ myth theory.[3][4] He was influenced by the writings of Willem Christiaan van Manen and J. M. Robertson.[5]
Works
- The Philosophy of History (1893)
- The Neoplatonists: A Study in the History of Hellenism (1901), third impression 1928
- Origins of Christianity (1904), fourth edition 1933
- Apollonius of Tyana and Other Essays (1906)
- The Liberal State (1907)
- Priests, Philosophers, and Prophets (1911)
- The Theory of Abstract Ethics (1916)
- The Metaphysics of Evolution (1926)
- His Prolegomena to a New Metaphysic (1931)
- Reason (1934)
He wrote several lives for the Dictionary of National Biography, signing as T. W-r.
References
- ^ Gould, Frederick James. (1929). The Pioneers of Johnson's Court: A History of the Rationalist Press Association From 1899 Onwards. Watts. p. 54
- ^ Anonymous. (1935). Obituary: Mr. Thomas Whittaker. Metaphysician and Critic. The Times. October 4. p. 16
- ^ McCabe, Joseph. (1950). A Rationalist Encyclopaedia: A Book of Reference on Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, and Science. Watts. p. 334. "In England the philosophic writer T. Whittaker, and L. G. Rylands, supported Robertson in denying the historicity of Jesus."
- ISBN 978-0301710211
- International Journal of Ethics26 (3): 428-429.
Further reading
- “Whittaker, Thomas,” in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 by Foster, Joseph, Oxford: Parker and Co., 1888–1892.
- The Times, 1935, Obituary: Thomas Whittaker. Metaphysician and critic
External links
- Works by Thomas Whittaker at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Thomas Whittaker at Internet Archive
- Works by Thomas Whittaker at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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