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John Hospers obituary

philosopher and libertarian candidate for U.S. President

Anyone aged 40 who studied philosophy can have on their shelves at least one edition of the primer required for students, an introduction to philosophical analysis, first published in mid-1950. Its author, John Hospers, who died aged 93, was professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Southern California.

"I want to be remembered as an instructor of philosophy that could clarify the issues, and have good ideas clearly," he wrote. It must also be remembered that one of the founders of the individualist, anti-government Libertarian Party of the United States, which had links with the laissez-faire economists Friedrich Hayek and Alan Greenspan. He wrote one of the key texts of the party, libertarianism, a political philosophy for the future, and in 1972 became the first Libertarian Party - and the first openly gay - candidate for the presidency. Her campaign photo was entitled "Free yourself from Big Brother." Hospers and his candidate for vice-president, Theodora Nathan, each won one electoral college vote of an elector Republican renegades. Hospers soon abandoned politics full time for a return to university education.

He was born in Pella, a small town near Des Moines, Iowa Pella was founded by religious refugees from the Dutch in the 18th century, and Dutch was the language of Hospers, the tulip gardens aesthetic self-sufficiency and Calvinist religious codes. It was Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, which later helped the struggle of the Dutch Reformed Church, and the father of her interest in philosophy.

first childhood love was astronomy. He would go to the observatory local college to see and to show students of the university, the rings of Saturn and several double stars. When the university itself, 17, was often delegated to replace the dean to teach astronomy to students last year. After earning a master's degree in English literature at the University of Iowa in 1941, Hospers offered me a scholarship in philosophy at Columbia University, where he studied for a year in the British analytic philosopher GE Moore, who was a visiting professor. He received his Ph.D. in 1944. His first book, the meaning and truth in art, published in 1946, while teaching at Columbia, is based on his thesis.

he said he was the only person, a bar, I was able to discuss amicably with the rand histrionic. However, differences of opinion on determinism (which, unlike him, was a stern believer is not free conditioned), the possible need for compulsory military service (which, contrary to her lawyer), and logical (which was not his forte), caused tension in the friendship, which ended abruptly in 1962 after he publicly questioned his ideas on aesthetics. He has never seen. Hospers continued to be influenced by Rand and livestock, often with tears, about their relationship.

his students and friends describe him as a talker and a lovely warm wonderful listening. The antagonism of many liberals opposed to one of its principles - the policy of open borders - in a 1998 article excoriating unrestricted Mexican immigration, and defense of the Iraq war in its revised version of liberalism in 2007 . By then he had left the party and contributed to the establishment of republican liberty Caucus.


John Hospers, philosopher, born June 9, 1918 and died June 12, 2011


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