author
Bernard Bosanquet
1848–1923
A leading British Idealist, this philosopher wrote widely on logic, aesthetics, religion, and political theory while also taking a serious interest in social policy. His books helped shape late Victorian and early 20th-century debates about the state, morality, and the place of the individual in society.
3 Audiobooks
The Essentials of Logic, Being Ten Lectures on Judgment and Inference
by Bernard Bosanquet
The Philosophical Theory of the State
by Bernard Bosanquet
The international crisis in its ethical and psychological aspects : Lectures delivered in February and March, 1915, under the scheme for imperial studies in the University of London, at Bedford college for women
by Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, Bernard Bosanquet, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks, Gilbert Murray, George Frederick Stout
About the author
Educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford, he became a fellow of University College, Oxford, before moving to London in the 1880s. There he devoted himself to writing, lecturing, and social work, becoming one of the best-known English philosophers of his generation.
His work ranged across an unusually wide field, including logic, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, religion, and political thought. He is especially associated with British Idealism and with efforts to develop and apply ideas linked to Hegel to modern social and political questions.
Although later thinkers such as Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore helped push philosophy in new directions, his writing remained influential for its scope and ambition. For readers today, he offers a window into a moment when philosophy was expected to speak not only about abstract truth, but also about public life and social responsibility.