Francis herbert bradley biography

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Francis Herbert Bradley OM (30 January 1846 – 18 September 1924) was a British idealist philosopher.
Francis Herbert Bradley OM was a British idealist philosopher.

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F. H. Bradley

English philosopher (1846–1924)

Francis Herbert BradleyOM (30 January 1846 – 18 September 1924) was a British idealistphilosopher. His most important work was Appearance and Reality (1893).^[4]

Life

Bradley was born at Clapham, Surrey, England (now part of the Greater London area). He was the child of Charles Bradley, an evangelicalAnglican preacher, and Emma Linton, Charles's second wife. A. C. Bradley was his brother. Educated at Cheltenham College and Marlborough College, he read, as a teenager, some of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. In 1865, he entered University College, Oxford. In 1870, he was elected to a fellowship at Oxford's Merton College where he remained until his death in 1924.^[5] Bradley is buried in Holywell Cemetery in Oxford.

During his life, Bradley was a respected philosopher and was granted honorary degrees many times. He was the first British philosopher to be awarded the Order of Merit. His fellowship at Merton College did not carry any teaching assignments and thus he was free to continue

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Western Philosophy nineteenth-century philosophy
Name: Francis Herbert (F.H.) Bradley
Birth: January 30, 1846
Death: September 18, 1924
School/tradition: British idealism
Main interests
Metaphysics, Ethics, Philosophy of history, Logic
Notable ideas
Influences	Influenced
Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Thomas Hill Green	G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, A. J. Ayer, Robin George Collingwood

Francis Herbert Bradley (January 30, 1846 – September 18, 1924) was a leading member of the philosophical movement known as British idealism, which was strongly influenced by Immanuel Kant and the German idealists, Johann Fichte, Friedrich Shelling, and G.W.F. Hegel. Bradley argued that both pluralism and realism contained inherent contradictions and proposed instead a combination of monism, the concept that all reality is one and there are no separate “things;” and absolute idealism, the concept that reality consists entirely of ideas.

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(Reproduced by kind permission of Dr T.J. Winnifrith) F.H. Bradley (1846-1924) was the most famous, original and philosophically influential of the British Idealists. These philosophers came to prominence in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, but their effect on British philosophy and society at large -- and, through the positions of power attained by some of their pupils in the institutions of the British Empire, on much of the world -- persisted well into the first half of the twentieth. They stood out amongst their peers in consciously rejecting the tradition of their earlier compatriots, such as Hume and Mill, and responding rather to the work of Kan