William Wallace (1843-1897)
May 11, 1843 - February 18, 1897
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This photograph appears as the frontispiece of
Lectures and Essays on Natural Theology and Ethics
(1898)
Biographical Highlights
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b May 11 1843 at Cupar (Fifeshire) Scotland, the eldest of five children
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(Harvard has wrongly listed 1844 as his birth date)
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studied at the University of St Andrews (MA 1864) and Balliol College [first
class in moderations 1866; first class in literae humaniores 1867; BA 1868;
MA 1871)
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strongly influenced by Green and particularly Jowett, under whose influence/following
whose death Wallace completed the translation of Hegel's Logic
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elected Fellow (1867) and tutor (1868) of Merton College. He married in
1872 and in 1882 (on the death of T.H. Green) was elected to the Whyte's
Professorship of Moral Philosophy
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known as a demanding and even quick tempered teacher and colleague
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d. following a bicycle accident on February 18, 1897
Bibliography:
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Epicureanism. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge;
New York :Pott, Young & Co., 1880. viii, 270 p.
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Kant. Edinburgh, W. Blackwood and Sons; Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott
and Co., 1882. vi, 219 p. front. (port.) 18 cm. SERIES: Philosophical classics
for English readers, v. 5
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The Logic of Hegel [Wissenschaft der Logik. translated from the Encyclopaedia
of the philosophical sciences with prolegomena by William Wallace] Oxford,
Clarendon Press, 1874.: clxxxiv, 332 p.; [2d ed.] rev. and augm. Oxford,
Clarendon Press, 1892; [3d ed.] Oxford, Clarendon Press [1975] xliii,
342 p. 20 cm.
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The Logic of Hegel. [Prolegomena to the study of Hegel's philosophy
and especially of his Logic] 2nd ed., rev. and augm. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1894. xix, 477 p. ; 20 cm. CONTENTS: book I. Outlooks
and approaches to Hegel.--book II. In the porches of philosophy.--book
III. Logical outlines. [NOTES: "The present volume of prolegomena completes
the second edition of my Logic of Hegel which originally appeared in 1874".--Preface.]
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Life of Arthur Schopenhauer, London, W. Scott, 1890. 217, x p. 22
cm. [in the series, "Great writers." Ed. by E.S. Robertson. "Bibliography,
by John P. Anderson" ]
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Hegel's Philosophy of mind [translated from the Encyclopaedia
of the philosophical sciences [Philosophie des Geistes, with five introductory
essays, by William Wallace. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894. 320 p. ; 20
cm. CONTENTS: (Partial): On the scope of a philosophy of mind -- Aims and
methods of psychology -- On some psychological aspects of ethics -- Psycho-genesis
-- Ethics and politics.
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Hegel's philosophy of mind: being part three of the 'Encyclopaedia
of the philosophical sciences' (1830) [translated from the German of
Philosophie
des Geistes, Teil 3 of Encyklopadie der philosophischen Wissenschaften,by
William Wallace, together with the 'Zusatze' in Boumann's text (1845);
translated by A. V. Miller; with foreword by J. N. Findlay. Oxford,
Clarendon Press, 1971. : xxii, 320 p. 21 cm.
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Lectures and essays on natural theology and ethics by William Wallace
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edited, with a biographical introduction, by Edward Caird.Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1898.: xl, 566 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 23 cm. [Gifford
lectures; 1894-1895, and other material]
Letters from
Correspondence
Bibliography - Secondary Materials
Photographs
http://www.bartleby.com/224/0134.html
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes
(1907–21).
Volume XIV. The Victorian Age, Part Two.
I. Philosophers.
§ 34. William Wallace.
Of the numerous writers who represent a type of thought
similar to Green’s in origin and
outlook only a few can be mentioned here. In 1874, the
year in which Green’s “introductions”
to Hume were published, there appeared, also, The Logic
of Hegel, translated from the
latter’s Encyclopaedia by William Wallace, who afterwards
succeeded to Green’s chair of
moral philosophy at Oxford. A second edition of this work,
in which the introductory matter
was considerably extended, was issued in 1892; and this
was followed, in 1894, by Hegel’s
Philosophy of Mind, and, in 1898 (after the author’s death),
by Lectures and Essays on
Natural Theology and Ethics. Wallace devoted himself more
directly than his associates to
the elucidation of Hegel’s thought; but it may be doubted
whether he himself adhered any more
closely than they did to the details of the dialectic.
The prolegomena and introductory essays,
by which his translations were prefaced, are not merely
explanatory of difficulties. They have
often the character of original interpretations; they
approach the subject from different points of
view and show a rare power of selecting essential factors.
Wallace had wide intellectual
sympathies and found matter of agreement with philosophers
of different schools; but all, in his
hands, led towards a central idealism. His work consisted
in pointing out the various avenues
of approach to the temple of idealism, rather than in
unveiling its mysteries.
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