Joseph Rickaby

Joseph John Rickaby (1845-1932) was an English Jesuit priest and philosopher.

Life

He 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" [Jill Muller, "Gerard Manley Hopkins and Victorian Catholicism: A Heart in Hiding" (2003), p. 89; the others were Richard F. Clarke, Herbert Lucas, and his brothers John Rickaby.] , a significant group for neo-scholasticism in England. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10746a.htm] 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.

His "Moral Philosophy" of 1901, in the Stonyhurst Philosophical Series, [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12025c.htm] gave a theological argument for the proposition that animal rights do not exist. [Gary Steiner, "Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals in the History of Western Philosophy" (2005), p. 114.]

He had some affiliation with Clarke's Hall in Worcester College, Oxford. He would deliever conferences to Catholic undergraduates of Oxford and Cambridge. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=K8sYAAAAYAAJ&dq=Joseph%20Rickaby&lr=&pg=PA339&ci=145,112,144,36&source=bookclip The Catholic Who's who and Yearbook By Francis Cowley Burnand Published by Burns & Oates, 1908] ] [ [http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no91-27073 World Cat Identities] ] [http://books.google.com/books?id=y7AQAAAAYAAJ&ots=OcCZNF61Co&dq=Joseph%20Rickaby%20Moral%20Philosophy&pg=PA250&ci=162,752,746,139&source=bookclip His work] is quoted by C.E. Raven in his "Science, Religion, and The Future" (1943, p. 9).

Works

*"Free Will and Four English Philosophers - Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Mill"
*"Four-Square: or, The Cardinal Virtues"
*"An Index to the Works of John Henry Cardinal Newman" (1914)
*"Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law" (1918)
*"Of God and His Creatures (annotated, abridged translation of the Summa Contra Gentiles), by Saint Thomas Aquinas
*"Scholasticism"

References

External links

* [http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Rickaby%2C%20Joseph%2C%201845-1932 Online books page]