Ralph Barton Perry (1876-1957) American philosopher, Perry studied Kant, wrote a biography of William James, and proceeded to a revision of his critical approach to natural knowledge. An active member among a group of American New Realist philosophers, he elaborated around 1910 the program of New Realism. However, he soon dissented from moral and spiritual ontology, and turned to a philosophy of disillusionment. Perry was an advocate of a militant democracy in his words "total but not totalitarian". Jump to: navigation, search William James William James (January 11, 1842, New York–August 26, 1910, Chocorua, New Hampshire) was a pioneering psychologist and philosopher. ... New Realism refers to the group of artists (Y. Klein, Christo, Arman, Spoerri) founded in 1960 by Restany and Klein. ... The concept of Totalitarianism is a typology or ideal-type used by some political scientists to encapsulate the characteristics of a number of twentieth century regimes that mobilized entire populations in support of the state or an ideology. ...
RalphBartonPerry was born on July 3, 1876, in Poultney, Vt. He received his bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University in 1896 and his master of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees from Harvard University in 1897 and 1899.
Perry's General Theory of Value (1926) contended that interest is "the original source and constant feature of all value" and defined interest as that which belongs to the motor-affective life of instinct, desire, and feeling.
Perry retired from Harvard in 1946 and was Gifford lecturer at Glasgow University until 1948.
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