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William Ernest Hocking

William Ernest Hocking (1873 - 1966) was an American Idealist philosopher

He was attended lectures by many German philosophers of his time; Dilthey, Paul Natorp , Husserl, Wilhelm Windelband and Heinrich Rickert. A staunch defender of idealism in America, Hocking took his understanding of idealism to be very critical in terms of what that entitled in meaning anything definite about "religion," "history" or the "superpersonal."

In many regards he agreed with Wilhelm Luetgert , a German critic of idealism, however without abandoning its position. Hocking believed nothing that could be was ultimately irrational, while declaring equally that there was no unknowable in what was.



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