Concept

Metaphysical Society

Overview

The Metaphysical Society was a famous British debating society, founded in 1869 by James Knowles, who acted as Secretary. Membership was by invitation only, and was exclusively male. Many of its members were prominent clergymen, philosophers, and politicians.

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Philosophers who discussed Metaphysical Society

• Henry Sidgwick
• William Kingdon Clifford
• Shadworth Hodgson

Related ideas

• Metaphysics
• Leslie Stephen
• Henry Sidgwick
• Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• William Kingdon Clifford
• Thomas Henry Huxley
• Scottish people
• Liberal Party (UK)
• Oxford University Press
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• James Martineau
• Frederic Harrison
• Shadworth Hodgson
• James Sully

Place in the tradition

Part of Agnosticism.

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