Paul Fletcher

Paul Fletcher was a philosophical theologian born in 1965 Born and raised in Birkenhead, Paul attended St Hughes RC secondary school. As he was about to escape to a sixth-form place at St Anselm's college, owned and run by the Irish Christian Brothers, he lost Dessie, his best childhood friend, to a drug overdose. He felt the event marked a transition from boy to adult, and he announced his intention to become a monk. In 1988, while still a Christian Brother, he went to study theology at Durham University. He left the order shortly before taking his final vows, disillusioned by the restrictions increasingly placed upon the social work of the Brothers in Liverpool. Later he returned to Durham for an MA in systematic philosophy and subsequently a PhD. In 1997, he was appointed as a lecturer in religious studies at Lancaster University, where he remained until his death. Fletcher's influence in modern philosophy has been affirmed by some of the top speakers in British philosophy and his contraversial ideas in applied ethics have been cited as having influenced some of the more radical modern philisophical approaches.

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* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/sep/11/3 Obituary] at The Guardian