DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-DC032-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved April 29, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/grote-john-1813-66/v-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved April 29, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/grote-john-1813-66/v-1
Article Summary
From 1855 Grote was Knightbridge Professor at Cambridge. His literary legacy was largely posthumous. Often seen as unsystematic, he was in fact a penetrating thinker who forcefully criticized utilitarianism and positivism and ably argued that ‘all that we call existence is for us a thought of ours’; his was a seminal British idealism, stressing both the gulf between philosophical inquiry and the sciences and the difficulty of distinguishing the necessary from the contingent.
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Gibbins, John and Bart Schultz. Grote, John (1813–66), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-DC032-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/grote-john-1813-66/v-1.
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Gibbins, John and Bart Schultz. Grote, John (1813–66), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-DC032-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/grote-john-1813-66/v-1.
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