Long 19th c. · 1846–1924
Who influenced F. H. Bradley?
Influences and legacy
Absolute idealist whose Appearance and Reality reduced relations to the Whole.
F. H. Bradley was influenced by T. H. Green, and went on to influence Bertrand Russell. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was F. H. Bradley?
F. H. Bradley was a British idealist philosopher. His most important work is Appearance and Reality (1893).
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced F. H. Bradley?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- T. H. Green 1836–1882
Who did F. H. Bradley influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on F. H. Bradley.
- Bertrand Russell 1872–1970
The line of teachers behind F. H. Bradley
The longest documented line of influence ending at F. H. Bradley runs 24 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- F. W. J. Schelling
- Georg W. F. Hegel
- T. H. Green
- F. H. Bradley
Two steps away from F. H. Bradley
Indirect influences
- Through T. H. Green: Georg W. F. Hegel
The second generation
Contemporaries of F. H. Bradley
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of F. H. Bradley, with no direct line between them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900
- Gottlob Frege 1848–1925
- William James 1842–1910
- Peter Kropotkin 1842–1921
- Charles Sanders Peirce 1839–1914
- Vladimir Solovyov 1853–1900
- Ernst Mach 1838–1916
- Franz Brentano 1838–1917
F. H. Bradley by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 90
- Thinkers downstream
- 19
- Wikipedia languages
- 30 — #44 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about F. H. Bradley
- Who influenced F. H. Bradley?
- T. H. Green.
- Who did F. H. Bradley influence?
- Bertrand Russell.
- When did F. H. Bradley live?
- 1846–1924. The map files F. H. Bradley under the long 19th century.
- How rare is the F. H. Bradley card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on F. H. Bradley in 30 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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