WILLIAM

See also:

• WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL (1823— )
• WALLACE, LEWIS [LEW] (1827—1905)
• WALLACE, SIR RICHARD
• WALLACE, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1270-1305)
• WALLACE, WILLIAM (1768-1843)
• WILLIAM WALLACE (1844-1897)
• WALLACE, WILLIAM VINCENT (1814-1865)

WALLACE (1844-1897)  , Scottish philosopher, was born at Cupar-Fife on the 11th of May 1844, the son of a house-builder . Between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two he was educated at St Andrews, whence he proceeded as an exhibitioner in 1864 to Balliol College, Oxford . He took a first class in Moderations, and in Lit . Hum . (1867), was Gaisford prizeman in 1867 (Greek prose) and Craven Scholar in 1869 . Three years later he was appointed fellow, and in 1871 librarian, of Merton College . In 1882 he was elected Whyte's professor of moral philosophy in succession to T . H . Green, and retained the position until his death . He died on the 18th of February 1897 from the effects of a bicycle accident near Oxford . His manner was some-what brusque and sarcastic, and on this account, in his under-graduate days at Balliol, he was known as The Dorian." But he was greatly respected both as a man and as a lecturer . His philosophical works are almost entirely devoted to German, and especially to Hegelian, doctrines, which he expounded and criticized with great clearness and literary skill .

In dealing with

Hegel he was, unlike many other writers, successful in expressing himself in a lucid literary manner, without artificial and incomprehensible terminology . His principal works were The Logic of Hegel (1873), which contains a translation of the Encyklopddie with an introduction, a second edition of which, with a volume entitled Prolegomena, appeared in 1892; Epicureanism (1880); Kant (Blackwood's Philosophical Classics, 1882) ; Life of Arthur Schopenhauer (1890) ; Hegel's Philosophy of Mind (translated from the Encyklopadie, with five introductory essays) ; Lectures and Essays on Natural Theology and Ethics, being a selection from his papers edited with a biographical introduction by Edward Caird . He wrote several important articles for the 9th edition of the Ency . Brit., which, with some re-vision, have been repeated in the present work .