Richard Lewis Nettleship

Richard Lewis Nettleship ( born December 17, 1846 † August 25, 1892 ) was a representative of British idealism. He attended Uppingham School and came to the 1864 Balliol College, Oxford.

Biography

He was a Fellow in 1869 and worked until his death as a tutor in the college.

Nettleship held primarily courses on logic, and Plato's Republic, sometimes also on the history of moral philosophy and ethics of Aristotle. In the logic of events have focused mostly on the history of logic, especially the logic of Aristotle and Bacon. Nettleship it held in the introduction to the philosophy of important ancient texts to read as contemporary as they express the ideas in a simpler way.

He became known primarily for his work as a university teaching, but also through his essay The Theory of Education in the Republic of Plato, which appeared in 1880.

After the death of Green in March 1882, he was working from his estate out first the Prolegomena to Ethics and later the Memoir. This work was the last publication of Nettleship.

Nettleship, among other teachers of HH Joachim.

He left an unfinished work on Plato, which was published with his logic lectures and some essays after his death.