J. M. E. McTaggart
| J. M. E. McTaggart | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Born |
John McTaggart Ellis 3 September 1866 London |
| Died | 18 January 1925 (aged 58) London |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, 1888) |
| Era | 19th- and 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | British Idealism |
|
Main interests
|
Metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of religion |
|
Notable ideas
|
The unreality of time (A-series and B-series) |
|
Influences
|
|
|
Influenced
|
|
John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, commonly John McTaggart or J. M. E. McTaggart (/məkˈtæɡərt/; 3 September 1866 – 18 January 1925), was an idealist metaphysician. For most of his life McTaggart was a fellow and lecturer in philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was an exponent of the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and among the most notable of the British idealists. McTaggart is known for The Unreality of Time (1908), which argues that time is unreal, a work that has been widely discussed through the 20th Century and into the 21st.
J. M. E. McTaggart was born in 1866 in London to Francis and Ellen Ellis. At birth, he was named John McTaggart Ellis, after his maternal grand-uncle, John McTaggart. Early in his life, his family took the surname McTaggart as a condition of inheritance from that same uncle.
McTaggart attended Clifton College, Bristol, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1885. At Trinity he was taught for the Moral Sciences Tripos by Henry Sidgwick and James Ward, both distinguished philosophers. After obtaining First class honours (the only student of Moral Sciences to do so in 1888), he was, in 1891, elected to a prize fellowship at Trinity on the basis of a dissertation on Hegel's Logic. McTaggart had in the meantime been President of the Union Society, a debating club, and a member of the secretive Cambridge Apostles society. In 1897 he was appointed to a college lectureship in Philosophy, a position he would hold until his retirement in 1923 (although he continued to lecture until his death). He received the honorary degree Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) from the university in May 1902.
...
Wikipedia