Warner Fite (5 March 1867 – 23 June 1955) was an American philosopher.

Biography

Warner Fite was born in Philadelphia. He graduated with a BA from Haverford College in 1889 and received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1894.[1] Besides teaching at the University of Chicago (1897–1901), Fite also worked at the University of Texas (1903–1906), Indiana University (1906–1908) and Harvard University (1911–1912).[1] He held the chair of Stuart Professor of Ethics at Princeton University from 1917 until his retirement in 1935.[1]

Warner Fite died in 1955.[2]

Works

  • An Introductory Study of Ethics (1903).
  • Individualism (1911).
  • Birth-Control and Biological Ethics (1916).
  • Moral Philosophy (1925).
    • The Examined Life: An Adventure in Moral Philosophy (1957).
  • The Living Mind (1930).
  • The Platonic Legend (1934).
  • Jesus: The Man (1946).

Translations

Selected articles

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Stroh, Guy W. (2005). "Fite, Warner (1867–1955)." In: John R. Shook (Ed.) Dictionary Of Modern American Philosophers, Vol. I. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, p. 802.
  2. "Dr. Warner Fite, Educator, is Dead," The New York Times, June 24, 1955, p. 19.
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