Meynell, Hugo Anthony2019-09-252019-09-252016-03-2820131941-7624http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/236312"R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943) was one of the most original thinkers of his generation. At the time he taught and wrote—Oxford in the 1920s and 30s—analytical philosophy, under the leadership of Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore, was beginning to establish its ascendancy in English universities and was making professional philosophers proud of the irrelevance of their work to what most people would think were burning questions of morality, politics, and the living of one’s life. The movement was justifiably opposed to undue pretentiousness in philosophy; it also disliked system-building, was friendly both to science and common sense, and had more or less contempt for the “idealism” that had prevailed among the previous two generations or so of English-speaking philosophers"engWith permission of the license/copyright holderR. G. CollingwoodTheologyEthicsPhilosophyMethods of ethicsGeneral and historicalTheological ethicsPhilosophical ethicsArticle