biography
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Perry, Ralph Barton
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| lived:
| (1876–1957)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, born in Poultney, Vermont, USA. Earning a Harvard doctorate (1899), he taught briefly at Williams and Smith Colleges, then returned to Harvard to teach (1902–46). A key advocate of the ‘new realism’ and of philosophical clarity and precision, he outlined a naturalistic value theory in such works as The General Theory of Value (1926). His Puritanism and Democracy (1944) was a classic, and his 1935 biography of his teacher and colleague, William James, won a Pulitzer Prize. He was a US Army major during World War 1, and later supported the New Deal and campaigned for the formation of the United Nations. |
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