The Modern Predicament

by H.J. Paton

This is Volume IX in a series of twelve on Ethics. Originally published in 1955, this is a collection of works the philosophy of religion that four Forwood Lectures on the philosophy of religion, which were delivered in the University of Liverpool in 1949. It developed into two series of Gifford Lectures given in the University of St. Andrews in the years 1950 and 1951.

408 pages, Hardcover

First published August 17, 2004

About the author

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 commentary on the first half of Kant's Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Kant's Metaphysic of Experience (1936) is an important work of philosophical scholarship.