George Blewett

George John Blewett (9 December 1873 – 9 August 1912) was a Canadian philosopher and theologian.


George Blewett
Born
George John Blewett

(1873-12-09)9 December 1873
Yarmouth, Ontario, Canada
Died9 August 1912(1912-08-09) (aged 38)
Go Home Bay, Ontario, Canada
Home townNear St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada
Spouse(s)
Clara Woodsworth
(
m. 1906)
[1]
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionChristianity (Methodist)
ChurchMethodist Church
Ordained1898[1]
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe Metaphysical Basis of Preceptive Ethics[2] (1900)
Influences
Academic work
Discipline
Sub-discipline
School or tradition
Institutions
Influenced

Biography

Born on 9 December 1873, in Yarmouth Township in Elgin County, Ontario, the son of William Blewett, a farmer, and Mary Baker, he was raised on a farm near St. Thomas, Ontario.[1] In 1897, he graduated from Victoria University in the University of Toronto.[6] He studied at the University of Würzburg in 1899 and received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in philosophy in 1900 from Harvard University. He also did postgraduate work at Oxford University and Cambridge University.

In 1901, he became a lecturer in philosophy at Wesley College, Winnipeg. In 1906, he became the Ryerson Professor of moral philosophy at Victoria University. In 1907, he wrote The Study of Nature and the Vision of God: With Other Essays in Philosophy. His second book The Christian View of the World was published in 1912.

He drowned while swimming, apparently the result of a heart attack, in Go Home Bay, Ontario, on 15 August 1912.[7] He was buried in the Necropolis Cemetery.

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gollark: Also, they can ionise things without stopping.
gollark: My physics knowledge is obviously not really that complete, and you're not being very specific, but it's probably that they can only go through a bit of matter, or at least are *sometimes* absorbed and sometimes go through.
gollark: It seems harder to shield humans and the weird biological processes which get affected against radiation than computers, where it basically just boils down to more redundancy and possibly better materials/processes.
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References

Footnotes

  1. Trott 1998.
  2. Blewett 1900; Slater 2005, p. 493; Trott 1998.
  3. McKillop 2001, p. 224.
  4. Armour 1989, p. 34.
  5. "Biographies". The Hypertext Pratt. Peterborough, Ontario: Trent University. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  6. Slater 2005, p. 493; Trott 1998.
  7. Slater 2005, p. 495; Trott 1998.

Bibliography

Armour, Leslie (1989). "The Canadian Tradition and the Common Good" (PDF). Maritain Studies. 5: 23–40. Retrieved 5 October 2019.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Blewett, George John (1900). The Metaphysical Basis of Preceptive Ethics (PhD thesis). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. OCLC 76979155.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
McKillop, A. B. (2001) [1979]. Disciplined Intelligence: Critical Inquiry and Canadian Thought in the Victorian Era. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-6892-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Slater, John G. (2005). Minerva's Aviary: Philosophy at Toronto, 1843–2003. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-3870-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Trott, Elizabeth (1998). "Blewett, George John". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. 14. Toronto: University of Toronto / Université Laval. Retrieved 4 October 2019.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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