Bernard Bosanquet

Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923), British philosopher, born in Rock Hall, Alnwick, England, and educated at the University of Oxford. Bosanquet was a lecturer at University College, Oxford from 1871 to 1881, professor of moral philosophy (1903-1908) at the University of St Andrews, and Gifford lecturer (1911-1912) at the University of Edinburgh.

Bosanquet was one of the leaders of the so-called neo-Hegelian philosophical movement in the United Kingdom, deriving his ideas from Plato and the German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel. He wrote prolifically on logic, metaphysics, aesthetics, politics, and ethics. Among his best-known works are the Gifford lectures, The Principle of Individuality and Virtue (1912) and The Value and Destiny of the Individual (1913).