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H.J. Paton

Born

in Abernethy, Scotland

March 30, 1887

Died

August 02, 1969

Genre

Philosophy, European History, Scottish Affairs

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Herbert James Paton was Professor of Logic and Rhetoric at Glasgow University from 1927 until 1937, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1935 to 1937. In 1937 he left Glasgow to become White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.

Though best known for his philosophical writings, he spent some ten years in the Admiralty and Foreign Office dealing with emergent European states in the aftermath of the First World War. At the Peace Conference of 1919 he was a member of the British delegation which advised on the Polish settlement, about which he wrote in the six volume History of the Peace Conference of Paris.

Paton was an authority on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and his two-volume comme ...more

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	The Categorical Imperative: A Study in Kant's Moral Philosophy 3.79 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1946 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kant's Metaphysic of Experience, Vol 1 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1984 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kant's Metaphysic of Experience, Vol 2 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1936 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Immanuel Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, Translated and Analysed really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Kant's Metaphysic of Experience, 2 Vols really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1936 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plato's Theory of Eikaσia liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Claim of Scotland it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1968 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Good Will: A Study in the Coherence Theory of Goodness liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moral Law 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1976	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“More serious still, the unfortunate student and even, if I may judge from my own experience, many teachers of philosophy have the vaguest idea as to the meaning of Kant’s words. There are sentences in which the reader is unable to decide to which of several nouns the relative and demonstrative pronouns refer, or which of two nouns is to be regarded as subject and which as object. In vain do we look for a reliable guide even in these elementary matters; and the plain fact is that most students find many passages, and too often crucial passages, to which they can attach no meaning at all. It is not surprising that they accept the opinions of others at second-hand without being able either to confirm or to criticise them.”
― H.J. Paton, Kant's Metaphysic of Experience, Volume I

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