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Ralph Barton Perry


Born
Boston, Massachusetts, The United States
Genre
Philosophy


an American philosopher.
He was educated at Princeton (B.A., 1896) and at Harvard (M.A., 1897; Ph.D., 1899), where, after teaching philosophy for three years at Williams and Smith colleges, he was instructor (1902�05), assistant professor (1905�13), full professor (1913�30) and Edgar Pierce professor of philosophy (1930�46). He was president of the American Philosophical Association's eastern division in the year 1920-21.
A pupil of William James, whose Essays in Radical Empiricism he edited (1912), Perry became one of the leaders of the New Realism movement. Perry argued for a naturalistic theory of value and a New Realist theory of perception and knowledge. He wrote a celebrated biography of William James, which won the 1936 Pulitzer Prize ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 88 ratings · 15 reviews · 98 distinct works
The Thought and Character o...
4.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1935 — 24 editions
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إنسانية الإنسان
4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1961 — 13 editions
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آفاق القيمة
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1954 — 8 editions
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The Moral Economy
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003 — 94 editions
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General Theory Of Value
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions
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Puritanism and Democracy
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The Free Man and the Soldie...
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The Approach to Philosophy
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The Thought and Character o...
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Our Side Is Right
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1942
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“The power of church, state, school or public opinion, or of a monopoly of the instruments of communication, may be so used as to impoverish and imprison the mind. One idea insinuated into the mind may take possession of it and exercise a hypnotic spell. Two or more ideas are better, but if these are methodically selected to suit the purpose of an authority, they still deny freedom. Whoever determines what alternatives shall be made known to man controls what that man should choose from. He is deprived of freedom in proportion as he is denied access to any ideas, or is confined to any range of ideas short of the totality of relevant possibilities.”
― Ralph Barton Perry
tags: censorship, freedom, knowledge, social-control
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“Those who refuse to take a step toward their goal because it does not at once reach the goal are likely to stand still or move backward.”
― Ralph Barton Perry
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