- John Herman Randall, Jr.
John Herman Randall Jr. (
February 14 ,1899 -December 1 ,1980 ) was an American philosopher, author and educator.Born in
Grand Rapids, Michigan as the son of aBaptist minister, he graduated from Morris High School inNew York City and obtained hisA.B. fromColumbia University in 1918. He obtained an A.M. the following year and aPh.D in 1922.He married Mercedes Irene Moritz in New York on
December 23 , 1922, with whom he would have two sons, John Herman Randall III and Francis Ballard Randall.He started working as an assistant professor of
philosophy at Columbia in 1925. He was a member of theAmerican Philosophical Association , theEthical Culture Society ,Alpha Delta Phi andPhi Beta Kappa .He published "The Problem of Group Responsibility" in 1922 and "The Making of the Modern Mind" in 1926. He also coauthored "The Introduction to Contemporary Civilization" and wrote an influential study of
Aristotle .External links
https://secure2.convio.net/ari/site/SPageServer?pagename=reg_ar_library (menu including Rand's reading of her review of Randall's book "Aristotle")
http://www.pragmatism.org/genealogy/randall.htm
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/collections/html/4079250.html
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9062652/John-Herman-Randall-Jr (requires registration)
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