Thomas Whittaker
Born	(1856-09-25)25 September 1856
Died	3 October 1935(1935-10-03) (aged 79)
Education	Dublin Royal College of Science Exeter College, Oxford
Occupation(s)	Metaphysician,critic

Thomas Whittaker (25 September 1856 – 3 October 1935) was an Englishmetaphysician andcritic.

Whittaker was educated atDublin Royal College of Science andExeter College, Oxford. He was an editor of the journalMind (1885-1891).^[1] He won a Natural Science scholarship at Exeter College. From 1910 he was director of theRationalist Press Association.^[2]

Whittaker was an advocate of theChrist myth theory.^[3][4] He was influenced by the writings ofWillem Christiaan van Manen andJ. M. Robertson.^[5]

• The Philosophy of History (1893)
• The Neoplatonists: A Study in the History of Hellenism (1901), third impression 1928
• Origins of Christianity (1904), fourth edition 1933
• Apollonius of Tyana and Other Essays (1906)
• The Liberal State (1907)
• Schopenhauer (1909)
• Priests, Philosophers, and Prophets (1911)
• The Theory of Abstract Ethics (1916)
• The Metaphysics of Evolution (1926)
• His Prolegomena to a New Metaphysic (1931)
• Reason (1934)

He wrote several lives for theDictionary of National Biography, signing as T. W-r.

• Thomas Bedwell
• William Bewley
• John Bonnycastle
• Henry Briggs (1561–1630)

• “Whittaker, Thomas,” in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 byFoster, Joseph, Oxford: Parker and Co., 1888–1892.
• The Times, 1935,Obituary: Thomas Whittaker. Metaphysician and critic

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