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Henry Longueville Mansel

British philosopher and theologian
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Born:
Oct. 6, 1820, Cosgrove, Northamptonshire, Eng.
Died:
July 30, 1871, Cosgrove (aged 50)

Henry Longueville Mansel (born Oct. 6, 1820, Cosgrove, Northamptonshire, Eng.—died July 30, 1871, Cosgrove) was a British philosopher and Anglican theologian and priest remembered for his exposition of the philosophy of the Scottish thinker Sir William Hamilton (1788–1856). Educated at the University of Oxford, Mansel was elected Waynflete professor of moral and metaphysical philosophy there in 1859. In 1866 he was appointed regius professor of ecclesiastical history and canon of Christ Church. Two years later he became dean of St. Paul’s. Most of Mansel’s philosophical works centre on the relation between human thought and human experience. For the eighth edition ...(100 of 304 words)

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