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Thomas Whittaker (25 September 1856 – 3 October 1935) was an English metaphysician and critic.




Biography


Whittaker was educated at Dublin Royal College of Science and Exeter College, Oxford. He was an editor of the journal Mind (1885-1891). He won a Natural Science scholarship at Exeter College. From 1910 he was director of the Rationalist Press Association.
Whittaker was an advocate of the Christ myth theory. He was influenced by the writings of Willem Christiaan van Manen and J. M. Robertson.




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.

Thomas Bedwell
William Bewley
John Bonnycastle
Henry Briggs (1561–1630)




References






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 the Internet Archive
Works by Thomas Whittaker at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

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