John Leofric Stocks DSO (26 October 1882 – 13 June 1937) was a British philosopher and was briefly Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool in 1937.
Biography edit
Stocks was born the sixth of twelve children to John Edward Stocks, the vicar of Market Harborough, Leicestershire.[1]
He was educated at Rugby School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford and graduated in 1903. In 1906, he was an elected fellow and tutor of St. John's College, Oxford. Except for war service, he remained there until 1924.
Stocks served in the British Army with the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the First World War, and he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for gallantry at Beaucourt. In 1924, he was elected professor of philosophy at the University of Manchester, and, in 1936, he was appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Liverpool.
His professional philosophical interests were in Aristotelian studies and Epicureanism. In fact, he was president of the Aristotelian Society. He edited the Leaders of Philosophy book series (Ernest Benn Ltd.).[2]
He married Mary Danvers Brinton, who was later Baroness Stocks, with whom he had a son and two daughters. Stocks died on a visit to Swansea in 1937.[3] Stocks was also a versatile sportsman and played rugby, hockey and cricket.[4]
Bibliography edit
Written by John Leofric Stocks edit
- The Old Town Hall Library of Leicester (Corporation of Leicester, 1919). Joint authors: Cecil Deedes and J. E. Stocks.
- Aristotle's Definition of the Human Good (Blackwell, 1919)
- Patriotism and the Super-State (The Swarthmore Press and Harcourt, Brace & Howe, 1920; book series: International Relations Series)
- The Voice of the People (Wells Gardner, Darton & CO., Ltd., 1920)
- Aristotlelianism (Marshall Jones Company. 1925; book series: Our Debt to Greece and Rome)
- An Introduction to Philosophy (Ernest Benn Ltd., 1929: Benn's Sixpenny Library)
- The Limits of Purpose (1932)
- Time, Cause and Eternity (Macmillan, 1938)
- Reason and Intuition, and Other Essays (Oxford University Press, 1939)
- Morality and Purpose (Schocken Books, 1969; book series: Studies in Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion)
Translated by John Leofric Stocks edit
- De Caelo (Aristotle's On the Heavens) (Oxford University Press, 1922)
References edit
- ^ ‘Stocks, John Leofric’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec. 2007 accessed 14 February 2012 (subscription required)
- ^ Leaders of Philosophy (Ernest Benn) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ Phillips, D. Z. (2004). "Stocks, John Leofric (1882–1937)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36309. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Charlton, H. B. (1951). Portrait of a University. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 129-130
External links edit
Works by or about John Leofric Stocks at Wikisource- Works by or about John Leofric Stocks at Internet Archive
- Works by John Leofric Stocks at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
