John Fiske (philosopher)

John Fiske ( born March 30, 1842 in Hartford ( Connecticut ) as Edmund Fiske Green, † July 4, 1901 ) was an American philosopher and historian.

Life

He was the only child of Edmund Brewster Green and Mary Fiske Bound. His father worked as a newspaper editor in Hartford, New York City and Panama, where he died in 1852. When his widowed mother in 1855 married his second wife, Edmund Fiske Green changed his name to that of his great-grandfather's mother's side: John Fiske.

After a childhood in Middletown Fiske enrolled at Harvard University one, made in 1863 his college degree and graduated in 1865 from Harvard Law School. Although he had been in 1864 approved in Suffolk to the court, he never practiced law. Instead, he pursued a career as a writer, which began in 1861 with a Artikele about " Mr. Buckle's Fallacies, " published by the National Quarterly Review. Then Fiske wrote frequently for American and British magazines.

From 1869 to 1871 he taught philosophy at Harvard, 1870, also history, and worked as a librarian in 1872. When he left this position in 1879, he was elected member of the Supervisory Board and was re-elected after the end of the six -year term in 1885. From 1881 he taught American history at Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri ), where he became a professor in 1884. His residence kept Fiske, however, in Cambridge (Massachusetts ). In 1879, he taught American History at University College London and in 1880 at the Royal Institution.

Works

Generally

• Myths and Myth Makers (1872 ) ( online publication)
• Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy (1874 )
• The Unseen World ( 1876)
• Darwinism and Other Essays (1879; revised and enlarged, 1885)
• Excursions of an Evolutionist (1883 )
• The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of his Origin (1884 )
• The Idea of ​​God as Affected by modern Knowledge (1885 )
• Origin of Evil (1899 )
• A Century of Science and Other Essays (1899 )
• Through Nature to God (1899 )
• The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War (1900)
• Life Everlasting (the Ingersoll Lecture, 1901)

History

• American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History ( 1885)
• The Critical Period of American History, 1783-89 (1888 )
• The Beginnings of New England (1889 )
• The War of Independence, a book for young people (1889 )
• Civil Government of the United States (1890)
• The American Revolution ( two volumes, 1891)
• The Discovery of America ( two volumes, 1892)
• A United States History for Schools (1895 )
• Old Virginia and her Neighbors ( two vols, 1897)
• Essays, Literary and Historical (1902 )
• New France and New England (1902 )