Thomas Whittaker (metaphysician)
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Thomas Whittaker | |
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| Born | 25 September 1856 |
| Died | 3 October 1935 (aged 79) |
| Education | Dublin Royal College of Science Exeter College, Oxford |
| Occupation(s) | Metaphysician, critic |
Thomas Whittaker (25 September 1856 – 3 October 1935) was an English metaphysician and critic.
Whittaker was educated at Dublin Royal College of Science and Exeter College, Oxford. He was an editor of the journal Mind (1885-1891).[1] He won a Natural Science scholarship at Exeter College. From 1910 he was director of the Rationalist Press Association.[2]
Whittaker was an advocate of the Christ myth theory.[3][4] He was influenced by the writings of Willem Christiaan van Manen and J. M. Robertson.[5]
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)
- Schopenhauer (1909)
- 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.
