Seminar 2025
John Macmurray, the person and his thought
“The great philosophical innovation to be found in Macmurray … is the incorporation of theoretical reason within practical reason, and the consequent conception of the Self as agent, This reconceptualistation offers a way of overcoming the problems of solipsism and scepticism that arise from Cartesian and quasi-Cartesian conceptions of the Self as a thinking subject looking out onto the external world, and moved to action by a separate faculty of desire.” (Gordon Graham, Scottish Philosophy After The Enlightenment, chapter “John Macmurray And The Self As Agent”, p226, Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
“… the radical reorientation undertaken by Macmurray in his Gifford Lectures … put him at odds with most of his philosophical contemporaries” (ibid., p229)
“In the field of personal relations knowledge depends upon emotion, and upon mutual emotion; people must care for one another before they can know one another” (Search For a Faith, BBC radio broadcast #6 ‘Religion and Personal Relationship’ 10th May 1945).
Saturday October 18th 10am-4pm UK BST (UTC+1)
Online by Zoom only.
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