Philosopher
Ralph Barton Perry
Overview
Ralph Barton Perry (July 3, 1876 – January 22, 1957) was an American philosopher. He was a strident moral idealist who stated in 1909 that, to him, idealism meant "to interpret life consistently with ethical, scientific, and metaphysical truth." Perry's viewpoints on religion stressed the notion that religious thinking possessed legitimacy should it exist within a framework accepting of human reason and social progress.
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Philosophers who discussed Ralph Barton Perry
- Josiah Royce
- Paul Weiss (philosopher)
- Charles Hartshorne
- William James
- Joel Feinberg
- Alain LeRoy Locke
- William Pepperell Montague
- Donald Cary Williams
- Peter Glassen
- Stephen Pepper
Ideas Ralph Barton Perry discusses
- American Philosophical Association
- Philosophy
- Western philosophy
- Bachelor of Arts
- Harvard University
- Metaphysics
- Providence, Rhode Island
- Professor
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Progress
- Princeton University
- Perception
- American Philosophical Society
- Totalitarianism
- Value theory
- Gifford Lectures
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Master of Arts
- Naturalism (philosophy)
- Josiah Royce
- Paul Weiss (philosopher)
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Charles Hartshorne
- Glasgow
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.