Abstract

This collection of writings by E.S. Brightman is a worthy representation of the intellectual dimensions and philosophical achievements of the man who led the personalist movement in his lifetime and who served as Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy at Boston University from 1924 until 1953. The volume contains twenty-one selections, consisting of journal articles, book chapters, published lectures and addresses; they are arranged in seven subdivisions: Person, Knowledge, and Reality; Persons and Theory of Value; Philosophy of Religion; On Bowne’s Personalism; Of Persons and Philosophies; Latin American Thought; and Personalism and Life. Each part is meaty in its own way.