Edgar Sheffield Brightman

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ID3873408
NAMEEdgar Sheffield Brightman
GIVEN NAMESEdgar Sheffield
FAMILY NAMEBrightman
SIGNATUREBRIGHTMAN E S
AFFILIATIONSBoston University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS82
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT82
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1918
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1958
H-INDEX2

  • Person and Reality: An Introduction to Metaphysics

    Daniel S Robinson, Edgar Sheffield Brightman et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1958

  • The Person, or the Significance of Man

    Edgar Sheffield Brightman, Ralph Tyler FlewellingARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1953

  • An Introduction to Philosophy

    John Marshall, John S Marshall et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1952

  • Hindu View of Christ

    Edgar Sheffield Brightman, Swami AkhilanandaARTICLEPhilosophy East and West1952

  • Goals of Philosophy and Religion, East and West

    Edgar Sheffield BrightmanARTICLEPhilosophy East and West1952

    After centuries of isolated independence, one could hardly expect that the technical philosophies and religions of the Occident and the Orient would suddenly be reconciled or assimilated to each other. Perhaps they shuold not be. Their first contacts in modern times were between a Christianity sure of its sole truth and an Orient equally sure of its superiority, but suffering from Occidental exploitation. Thinkers in both halves of the globe will…

  • Persons in Revolt

    Edgar Sheffield BrightmanARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1951

    Journal Article Persons in Revolt Get access The Christian in Philosophy. By J. V. LANG-MEAD CASSERLEY. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. 266 pages. $2.75. The Moral Life and the Ethical Life. By ELISEO VIVAS. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1951. xix + 390 pages. $6.00. EDGAR SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN EDGAR SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the Ame…

  • Early Perfectionism

    Edgar Sheffield BrightmanARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1951

    Early Perfectionism Get access Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion with Special Reference to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. By the RT. REV. MSGR. R.A. KNOX. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950. viii + 622 pages. $6.00. EDGAR SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN EDGAR SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volu…

  • A Meeting of Extremes: Operationalism and Personalism

    Edgar Sheffield BrightmanARTICLEThe Journal of Religion1951

  • George Sylvester Morris

    Edgar Sheffield Brightman, Marc Edmund JonesARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1950

  • A Personalistic Philosophy of History

    Edgar Sheffield BrightmanARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1950

    that are in some sense repeatable and verifiable. History, on the other hand, deals with an unrepeatable past which is in no sense experimentally verifiable, although it may be inferred from its effects on the present. This unrepeatable past is treated differently by different historians. Philosophers who seek to unravel the of history differ from each other in their interpretations. Varying conceptions of history and its meaning are set forth by…

  • Self-Knowledge (Atma-bodhi)

    Alban G Widgery, Swami Nikhilananda et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1949

  • The Critique of Practical Reason and Other Writings in Moral Philosophy

    Edgar Sheffield Brightman, Immanuel Kant et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1949Cited by: 6

  • Homenaje a Antonio Caso

    Aníbal Sánchez Reulet, Antonio Gomez Robledo et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1949

  • Critique of Existentialism

    Edgar Sheffield BrightmanARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1949

    Journal Article Critique of Existentialism Get access Encounter with Nothingness. An Essay on Existentialism. The Humanist Library, No. XI. By HELMUT KUHN. Hinsdale (Illinois): Henry Regnery Company, 1949. xxii + 168 pages. $3.00. EDGAR SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN EDGAR SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XVII, Issue 4, October 1…

  • Ethics

    Edgar Sheffield BrightmanARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1949

    Ethics Get access Moral Standards. An Introduction to Ethics. By CHARLES H. PATTERSON . New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1949. xii + 514 pages. $4.00. EDGAR SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN EDGAR SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XVII, Issue 4, October 1949, Pages 257–258, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XVII.4.257 Published: 01 O…

  • La Idea del Hombre

    Edgar Sheffield Brightman, Eduard NicolARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1948Cited by: 2

  • Society and Religion

    Edgar Sheffield BrightmanARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1948

    Journal Article Society and Religion Get access Religion and Society. By S. RADHAKRISHNAN. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. 242 pages. $3.50. EDGAR SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN EDGAR SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XVI, Issue 2, April 1948, Pages 113–114, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XVI.2.113 Published: 01 April 1948

  • Philosophy and Religion

    Edgar Sheffield BrightmanARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1947

    Journal Article PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION Get access Spinosa: Portrait of a Spiritual Hero. By RUDOLF KAYSER. With an Introduction by Albert Einstein. (Translated by Amy Allen and Maxim Newmark.) New York: Philosophical Library, 1946. xix + 326 pages. $3.75. EDGAR SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN EDGAR SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volum…

  • Philosophy in the United States 1939-1945

    Edgar Sheffield BrightmanARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1947

  • Don Jose Vasconcelos

    Edgar Sheffield BrightmanARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1947

  • Que es Filosofia? o de una Sabiduria Heroica

    Edgar Sheffield Brightman, Ángel Vassallo et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1947

  • Etica

    Edgar Sheffield Brightman, Eduardo García MáynezARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1946

  • Estudios de Metafisica

    Edgar Sheffield Brightman, Juan Carlos Silva et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1946

  • The Neo-Orthodox Trend

    Edgar Sheffield BrightmanARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1946

    Journal Article The Neo-Orthodox Trend Get access EDGAR SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN EDGAR SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XIV, Issue 3, August 1946, Pages 129–130, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XIV.3.129 Published: 01 August 1946

  • The Meaning of Human Experience. Lynn Harold Hough

    Edgar Sheffield BrightmanARTICLEThe Journal of Religion1946