Борден Паркер Боун: Жизнь и философские взгляды

American philosopher, Methodist clergyman and theologian

Borden Parker Bowne (January 14, 1847 – April 1, 1910) was an American Christian philosopher, Methodist minister and theologian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times.

Bowne was born on January 14, 1847, near Leonardville in Monmouth County, New Jersey. In 1876 he became a professor of philosophy at Boston University, where he taught for more than thirty years. He later served as the first dean of the graduate school. Bowne was an acute critic of mechanistic determinism, positivism, and naturalism. He categorized his views as Kantianized Berkeleyanism, transcendental empiricism, and, finally, personalism, emphasizing freedom and the importance of the self, a philosophical branch of liberal theology: of this branch Bowne is the dominant figure; this personalism is sometimes called Boston personalism, in contrast with the California personalism of George Holmes Howison. Bowne's magnum opus, Metaphysics, was published in 1882. Bowne was influenced by Hermann Lotze. He died on April 1, 1910, in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer (New York, 1874). Studies in Theism (New York, 1882). Metaphysics: A Study in First Principles (New York, 1882; revised ed., 1898). Introduction to Psychological Theory (New York, 1886). Philosophy of Theism (New York, 1887; revised ed. 1902). The Principles of Ethics (New York, 1892). Theory of Thought and Knowledge (New York, 1899). The Christian Revelation (Cincinnati, 1898). The Christian Life (Cincinnati, 1899). The Atonement (Cincinnati, 1900). The Immanence of God (Boston, 1905). Personalism (Boston, 1908). Studies in Christianity (1909). A Man's View of Woman Suffrage (Boston, 1910). The Essence of Religion (Boston, 1910). Kant and Spencer: A Critical Exposition (Boston, 1912).