Raphael Demos
Raphael Demos | |
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Demos in 1927 | |
| Born | January 23, 1892 |
| Died | August 8, 1968 (aged 76) aboard ship, en route to the U.S. |
| Education | |
| Education | Harvard University (PhD, 1916) |
| Thesis | The Definition of Judgment (1916) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alfred North Whitehead |
| Other advisors | Bertrand Russell |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Doctoral students | Donald Davidson |
| Notable students | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Main interests | Moral philosophy |
Raphael Demos (/ˈdɛmoʊs/; Greek: Ραφαήλ Δήμου; January 23, 1892 – August 8, 1968) was a Greek-American philosopher. He was Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, emeritus, at Harvard University and an authority on the work of the Greek philosopher Plato. At Harvard, he taught Martin Luther King Jr.