Hocking, William Ernest
Hocking, William Ernest
(1873) Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard. Has endeavored to blend idealism vvith pragmatism while making some concessions to realism, even is in current theory he strives for a reconciliation between laissez faire liberalism and collectivism through a midground found in the worth of the individual in a “commotive union in the coagent state,” a notion comparable to the “conjunct self” of George Herbert Palmer only with a more individualistic emphasis and a current flavor. Among his works areThe Meaning of God in Human Experience, Man and the State, Types of Philosophy, Lasting Elements of Individualism and Living Religions and a World Faith. — L.E.D.