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This page provides a list of British philosophers; of people who either worked within Great Britain, or the country's citizens working abroad. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
20th-century English philosophers (145 P) 20th-century Scottish philosophers (27 P) Pages in category "20th-century British philosophers" The following 200 pages are ...
20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; 24th; 25th; Pages in category "20th-century English philosophers" The following 139 pages are in this category, out of 139 total. ...
20th-century English philosophers (139 P) 21st-century English philosophers (57 P) + ... Ebenezer Cooke (art education reformer) S. Barry Cooper; Jack Copeland;
His reputation further declined in the 20th century, as the onsets of World War I and World War II brought forth accusations that he was a progenitor of both Prussianism and fascism. Since the 1950s, extensive scholarship in the field of Carlyle studies has improved his standing, and he is now recognised as "one of the enduring monuments of our ...
In the 19th century, Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals. [5] Subsequently, in the 20th century, he became widely regarded, especially in the United States and the United Kingdom, as the philosophical founder of conservatism, [6] [7] along with his ultra-royalist and ultramontane counterpart Joseph de Maistre. [8] [9]
David Hume, a profoundly influential 18th-century Scottish philosopher. British philosophy refers to the philosophical tradition of the British people. "The native characteristics of British philosophy are these: common sense, dislike of complication, a strong preference for the concrete over the abstract and a certain awkward honesty of method in which an occasional pearl of poetry is embedded".
The Bloomsbury Group was a group of associated British writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the early 20th century. [1] Among the people involved in the group were Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Vanessa Bell, and Lytton Strachey.