Rupert Clendon Lodge (1886–1961) was an Anglo-Canadian philosopher, "the most widely read of all philosophers in Canada".
Lodge was born in
England
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, but spent most of his academic career at the
University of Manitoba
The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a public research university in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Founded in 1877, it is the first university of Western Canada. Both by total student enrolment and campus area, the University of ...
, where he taught from 1920 to 1947.
Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan (, ; July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media studies, media theory. Raised in Winnipeg, McLuhan studied at the University of Manitoba a ...
was a student of Lodge in the early 1930s.
Memorable Manitobans: Rupert C. Lodge (1886-1961)
citing J. M. Bunsted, ''Dictionary of Manitoba Biography'', University of Manitoba Press, 1999. Lodge's works on Plato remain influential, and were reissued by Routledge in the 2000s and 2010s.
Works
* (tr.) ''The great problems'' by Bernardino Varisco. London: G. Allen & Co., 1914.
* ''The meaning and function of simple modes in the philosophy of John Locke'', 1918.
* ''An Introduction to Logic'', 1920.
* ''Plato's theory of ethics: the moral criterion and the highest good'', 1928. In the series The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.
* ''Philosophy of education'', 1937.
* ''The questioning mind; a survey of philosophical tendencies'', 1937
* ''Philosophy of business'', Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945.
* ''Plato's theory of education'', 1947.
* ''The great thinkers'', 1949.
* ''Applied philosophy'', 1951.
* ''Plato's theory of art'', 1953.
* ''The philosophy of Plato'', 1956.
References
External links
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1886 births
1961 deaths
20th-century English philosophers
20th-century Canadian philosophers
20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers
20th-century Canadian male writers
Academic staff of the University of Manitoba
British emigrants to Canada
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