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Philip Ellis Wheelwright (July 6, 1901 – January 6, 1970)[1] was an Americanphilosopher,classical scholar andliterary theorist. He was born inElizabeth, New Jersey, the son of a stockbroker, and died inSanta Barbara, California. Wheelwright was educated atPrinceton University, with a B.A. in 1921 and a Ph.D. in 1924 with his dissertation "The Concepts of Liberty and Contingency in the Philosophy ofCharles Renouvier," the FrenchKantian philosopher who so influencedWilliam James.
Wheelwright taught atNew York University from 1927 to 1935, while from 1930 to 1933 editing the journalSymposium, an avant-garde review of literary criticism. After two years devoted to his own writing, in 1937 he returned to teaching as professor of philosophy atDartmouth College, on whose faculty he remained until 1953. In 1966 he retired from theUniversity of California, Riverside, where he had been a professor since 1954, a founding charter member of the faculty of UC Riverside's undergraduate College of Letters and Science (now dubbed the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences). Wheelwright also taught atPomona College for one semester in 1953. He was known as an eloquent lecturer.[2]
Wheelwright published in 1935A Critical Introduction to Ethics, an introductory textbook to philosophical ethics; in the same year and for the general public, he publishedAristotle, a translation "into the English of today" of selections from seven of the Greek philosopher's most important books:Natural Science,The Metaphysics,Zoology,Psychology,The Nicomachean Ethics,On Statecraft, andThe Art of Poetry. But Professor Wheelwright is best known for works in the field ofliterary criticism,The Burning Fountain: a Study in the Language of Symbolism (1954) andMetaphor and Reality (1962). He also published a book onearly Greek philosophy,The Presocratics (1966).
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