Joseph Rickaby

{{Short description|English Jesuit priest and philosopher}}

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Joseph John Rickaby, SJ (1845 – 1932) was an English Jesuit priest and philosopher.

Life

Rickaby was born in 1845 in Everingham, York. He received his education at Stonyhurst College, and was ordained in 1877, one of the so-called Stonyhurst Philosophers, a significant group for neo-scholasticism in England,{{cite web |title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Neo-Scholasticism |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10746a.htm |website=www.newadvent.org}} along with Richard F. Clarke, Herbert Lucas, and his own brother, John Rickaby.Jill Muller, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Victorian Catholicism: A Heart in Hiding (2003), p. 89 At the time he was at St Beuno's, he was on friendly terms with Gerard Manley Hopkins;Joseph J. Feeney, The Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins (2008), p. 18. they were ordained on the same day.

He was affiliated with Clarke's Hall in Worcester College, Oxford, and would deliver conferences to Catholic undergraduates of Oxford and Cambridge.Francis Cowley Burnand, [https://books.google.com/books?id=K8sYAAAAYAAJ&dq=Joseph%20Rickaby&pg=PA339 The Catholic Who's who and Yearbook], Burns & Oates, 1908.

{{cite web|url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no91-27073|title=Free will and four English philosophers : Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Mill /|website=worldcat.org|access-date=4 October 2008|archive-date=11 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011211439/http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no91-27073|url-status=dead}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=y7AQAAAAYAAJ&dq=Joseph%20Rickaby%20Moral%20Philosophy&pg=PA250 His work] is quoted by Charles E. Raven in Science, Religion, and The Future (1943, p. 9).

Works

  • Aquinas Ethicus, a translation of the principal portions of the Second Part of the Summa Theologica, in two volumes: [https://archive.org/details/aquinasethicusor01thomuoft Volume 1] and [https://archive.org/details/aquinasethicusor02jose Volume 2] (1892)
  • [https://archive.org/details/firstprinciples00rickgoog/page/n8 The First Principles of Knowledge] (1888)
  • [https://archive.org/details/notesonstpaul00rickuoft Notes on St. Paul: Corinthians, Galatians, Romans] (1898)
  • [https://archive.org/details/oxfordcambridgec00rickuoft Oxford & Cambridge Conferences 1897-1899] (1899)
  • [https://archive.org/details/politicalandmora00rickuoft Political and Moral Essays] (1902)
  • [https://archive.org/details/freewillandfoure00rickuoft Free Will and Four English Philosophers: Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Mill] (1906)
  • [https://archive.org/details/thedivinityofchr00rickuoft The Divinity of Christ] a lecture(1906)
  • [https://archive.org/details/scholasticism00rickuoft Scholasticism] (1908)
  • [https://archive.org/details/foursquare00rickuoft Four-Square: or, The Cardinal Virtues] (1908)
  • [https://archive.org/details/newmanmemorialse00rickuoft Newman Memorial Sermon] (1910)
  • [https://archive.org/details/indextoworksofjo00rickuoft An Index to the Works of John Henry Cardinal Newman] (1914)
  • [https://archive.org/details/moralphilosophye00rick Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law] (1918)
  • [https://archive.org/details/PPCV-Manresa Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues], a translation from the original Spanish of Alphonsus (Alonso) Rodriguez's Ejercicio de Perfección y Virtudes Cristianas, complete in two volumes (1929).
  • [https://archive.org/details/OfGodAndHisCreaturesByStThomasAquinas/mode/ God and His Creatures (annotated, abridged translation of the Summa Contra Gentiles), by Saint Thomas Aquinas] (1905)

References

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