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Ralph Barton Perry

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American philosopher (1876-1957)

United StatesMusiciansLived 1876 to 1957 · aged 80
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Ralph Barton Perry was an American philosopher. " Perry's viewpoints on religion stressed the notion that religious thinking possessed legitimacy should it exist within a framework accepting of human reason and social progress.

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1936Pulitzer Prize for Biography

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Ralph Barton Perry was an American philosopher. He was a strident moral idealist who stated in 1909 that, to him, idealism meant "to interpret life consistently with ethical, scientific, and metaphysical truth." Perry's viewpoints on religion stressed the notion that religious thinking possessed legitimacy should it exist within a framework accepting of human reason and social progress.

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United States
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Musicians
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deceased
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Lived 1876 to 1957 · aged 80
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