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The Philosophy of a Business Man

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

G. Dawes Hicks
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English Philosophy owes much that is most characteristic of it to the assiduous toil of men whose vocation has not been that of academic teaching and research. Many of them have been engulfed in the routine of business life, and such hours as they could devote to philosophic reflexion have been snatched from intervals of leisure which the majority of business men relinquish to recreation and rest. The friend to whose memory I wish to pay my humble tribute would not have claimed for himself, nor have permitted his associates to claim for him, the distinction of having initiated a new line of speculative reflexion. But, if he did not propound any original metaphysical theory, he possessed, in quite unusual measure, the

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Philosophy , Volume 3 , Issue 9 , January 1928 , pp. 49 - 64
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1928

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page 50 note 1 See, for example, his volumes, Is the New Theology Christian?, London, 1907Google Scholar; and Liberal Theology and the Ground of Faith, London, 1908.Google Scholar He generally wrote under the pseudonym of “ Hakluyt Egerton.”

page 52 note 1 Boutwood may, of course, have read, but I hardly think it likely that at this time he had, Ferrier's Institutes of Metaphysics. If he had not, it is a significant fact that, along independent lines, he had virtually reached Ferrier's position that what is known in any act of apprehension is never merely the object, but “ always is and must be the object with the addition of oneself—object plus subject, thing or thought mecum.”

page 54 note 1 Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, N.S. I, 1901, p. 140.

page 57 note 1 In this regard his early view had undergone modification.

page 58 note 1 Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. II, No. 3, 1894, p. 80.Google Scholar

page 62 note 1 Patriotism. An Essay towards a Constructive Theory of Politics. London, George Allen & Unwin. 1905.Google Scholar