William Ritchie Sorley

William Ritchie Sorley (4 November 1855, Selkirk - 28 July 1935, Cambridge) was a Scottish philosopher. A Gifford Lecturer, he was one of the British Idealist school of thinkers, with interests in ethics.

Life

William Ritchie Sorley, the son of Anna Ritchie and William Sorley, a Free Church of Scotland minister, was educated at Edinburgh University and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[1] He was Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy in the University of Cambridge from 1909 until 1933.

He is now remembered for his A History of British Philosophy to 1900, with its idiosyncratic slant, as a retrospective view from the point of view of British Idealism. The poet Charles Sorley was his son.

References

^ Sorley, William Ritchie in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.

External links

Works written by or about William Ritchie Sorley at Wikisource
Works by William Ritchie Sorley at Project Gutenberg

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Name	Sorley, William Ritchie
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Date of birth	4 November 1855
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Date of death	28 July 1935
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