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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Borden Parker BowneШаблон:Efn (January 14, 1847 – April 1, 1910) was an American Christian philosopher, Methodist minister and theologian.Шаблон:Sfn He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times.

Life

Bowne was born on January 14, 1847, near Leonardville in Monmouth County, New Jersey.Шаблон:Sfnm In 1876 he became a professor of philosophy at Boston University,Шаблон:Sfn where he taught for more than thirty years.Шаблон:Citation needed He later served as the first dean of the graduate school.Шаблон:Sfnm Bowne was an acute critic of mechanistic determinism,Шаблон:Sfn positivism, and naturalism. He categorized his views as Kantianized Berkeleyanism, transcendental empiricism, and, finally, personalism, emphasizing freedom and the importance of the self,[1] a philosophical branch of liberal theology: of this branch Bowne is the dominant figure; this personalism is sometimes called Boston personalism, in contrast with the California personalism of George Holmes Howison.Шаблон:Citation needed Bowne's magnum opus, Metaphysics, was published in 1882.Шаблон:Sfn Bowne was Шаблон:Citation needed span influenced by Hermann Lotze.Шаблон:Sfn He died on April 1, 1910, in Boston, Massachusetts.Шаблон:Sfn

Legacy

Bowne has influenced philosophy in various ways. For instance, there has been a direct line of personalists from Bowne through his student, Edgar Sheffield Brightman (1884–1954), through Brightman's student, Peter Anthony Bertocci (1910–1989), to Bertocci's student, Thomas O. Buford (born 1932).

There has also been a more general influence, as with Martin Luther King Jr., who studied at Boston University, and spoke in his Stride Toward Freedom of having gained "a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality."Шаблон:Sfn

Bowne received nine nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature between 1906 and 1909—one from his own sister.[2]

Boston University named a professorship in Bowne's honor. The named professors are:

Published works

  • The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer (New York, 1874).
  • Studies in Theism (New York, 1882).
  • Metaphysics: A Study in First Principles (New York, 1882; revised ed., 1898).
  • Introduction to Psychological Theory (New York, 1886).
  • Philosophy of Theism (New York, 1887; revised ed. 1902).
  • The Principles of Ethics (New York, 1892).
  • Theory of Thought and Knowledge (New York, 1899).
  • The Christian Revelation (Cincinnati, 1898).
  • The Christian Life (Cincinnati, 1899).
  • The Atonement (Cincinnati, 1900).
  • The Immanence of God (Boston, 1905).
  • Personalism (Boston, 1908).
  • Studies in Christianity (1909).
  • A Man's View of Woman Suffrage (Boston, 1910).
  • The Essence of Religion (Boston, 1910).
  • Kant and Spencer: A Critical Exposition (Boston, 1912).

See also

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  1. "Bowne, Parker Borden," in "The Columbia-Viking Desk Encyclopedia" (1953), New York: Viking.
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