The Hibbert Journal was a large, quarterly magazine in softback book format, issued since 1902 by the Hibbert Trust , best described by its subtitle: A Quarterly Review of Religion, Theology and Philosophy . In the early years it was published by Williams and Norgate , 14 Henrietta Street, London, with the U.S. Agent being Sherman, French & Co,. 6 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass . The subscription c. 1911 was "Ten Shillings per annum, post free". It ceased publication in 1968.
13-592: The Hibbert Journal was, from October 1902 to January 1948, edited by L. P. Jacks . Philosopher Dawes Hicks assisted him as sub-editor from its beginnings until his death in 1941. A number of eminent people contributed to the production of the Journal; Knights and Lords, professors, philosophers, senior clergy and academics: This religious magazine or journal–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on
26-589: A campaign to establish a teaching university within the University of London . Carmarthen College This is a list of dissenting academies , English and Welsh educational institutions run by Dissenters to provide an education, and often a vocational training as a minister of religion, outside the Church of England . It runs from the English Restoration of 1660, which created
39-525: A detailed textual study of Kant (and mastering the relevant literature). He gained his PhD at Leipzig in 1896 with a thesis on Kant which was to be published the following year. On his return from Germany in 1897 Hicks became minister of Unity Church in Islington until 1903, and lectured for the London School of Ethics and Sociology. In 1904 he was made Litt.D . by Manchester University and
52-509: A lecturer during his tenure) describes Hicks as being, as a teacher "a man of single-mind, wholly engrossed in philosophy". Keeling reports that Hicks believed that philosophy "as no other subject, could impart to.. students an influence and a training such as would render them habitually reflective about their existence and destiny". Hicks "ever saw clearly that the spiritual value of philosophical studies far outweighed their academic importance" but denied "that philosophy could legitimately serve as
65-532: A sub-editor of the Hibbert Journal to his sick bed and, as Stebbing reports, "was writing his famous 'Philosophical Survey' for that Journal when death came, rather suddenly at the end" on 16 January 1941, aged 78. Hicks was a Christian theist in his personal life but authored The Philosophical Bases Of Theism , a work on philosophical theism based on his Hibbert Lectures from 1931. The book utilized cosmological, moral and teleological arguments for
78-682: A substitute for religion or for religious faith". Hicks' significant efforts and influence as a teacher at UCL are testified to by Keeling, de Burgh and Stebbing alike and reported on by Wolff. Having already been secretary of the Aristotelian Society for many years, Hicks was made its president in 1913 and was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1927. He retired from UCL the following year and thereafter lived entirely in Cambridge but continued his long serving work as
91-543: The Department". (Wollf notes that Hicks is sometimes referred to as a Grote Professor, but that he was never given the title and, indeed may not have been entitled to hold it, due to his involvement in religious ministry. ) During his time at UCL, Hicks continued to live, at least partly, in Cambridge where he regularly lectured at the university , under the auspices of the Faculty of Moral Science, on Psychology and on
104-714: The Philosophy of Kant (and examined in the Moral Sciences Tripos on the former). He also "as a labour of love" gave annual lectures at Carmarthen College (a training college for teachers at religious schools) which were to be published in 1928 under the title "Ways towards the Spiritual Life". (Hicks was also for thirty years a trustee of Dr. Williams's Library . ) S.V. Keeling (whose early studies at UCL were directed under Hick's advisement and who would later return there as an MA student and then as
117-582: The article's talk page . This British magazine or academic journal–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . Dawes Hicks George Dawes Hicks FBA (14 September 1862 – 16 February 1941) was a British philosopher who was the first professor of moral philosophy at University College London from 1904 until 1928 and professor emeritus thereafter until his death. Hicks, eldest son of solicitor Christopher Hicks,
130-471: The existence of God. Hicks rejected any form of mysticism and disputed the evidence of religious belief from mystical experiences. The book argued for theism but was not concerned with Christianity or any other specific revelation. It has been described as Hicks' "most able and impressive work". Hicks donated his archive to University College London in 1941. The collection includes texts of his lectures given at UCL and Owens College Manchester, and notes on
143-549: The most radical and lasting effect upon his. pupil's life and teaching". Hicks graduated in 1888 with first class honours. Hicks then went to Manchester College, Oxford , and followed the lectures of Wallace, Nettleship and Cook Wilson . Elected a Hibbert Scholar 1891–96, Hicks did further research at the University of Leipzig under Wundt , Heinze, and Volelt and assisted Meumann in his experimental investigations on apprehension of time. Hicks also advanced his earlier studies in physiology but concentrated his greater efforts on
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#1732780971848156-593: Was appointed to the Chair of Moral Philosophy at University College London (UCL). Hicks was the first person to fill the position which had lain vacant since UCL first advertised for two Chairs in philosophy in 1827. Carveth Read then the Grote Professor of Mind and Logic, as Jonathan Wolff reports, persuaded the College to make such an appointment and thus fulfill "for the first time the original conception of
169-536: Was born in Shrewsbury on 14 September 1862 and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford . He initially went on to study law within his father's legal practice. Hicks won a scholarship and went, in 1884, to Owens College Manchester to study philosophy (and gain some knowledge of the natural sciences). He did so under Robert Adamson "whose philosophical scholarship and acuteness exercised
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