Rupert Lodge Explained

Rupert Clendon Lodge (1886–1961) was an Anglo-Canadian philosopher, "the most widely read of all philosophers in Canada".^[1]

Lodge was born in England, but spent most of his academic career at the University of Manitoba, where he taught from 1920 to 1947. Marshall McLuhan was a student of Lodge in the early 1930s.^[2] Lodge's works on Plato remain influential, and were reissued by Routledge in the 2000s and 2010s.

Works

• (tr.) The great problems by Bernardino Varisco. London: G. Allen & Co., 1914.
• The meaning and function of simple modes in the philosophy of John Locke, 1918.
• An Introduction to Logic, 1920.
• Plato's theory of ethics: the moral criterion and the highest good, 1928. In the series The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.
• Philosophy of education, 1937.
• The questioning mind; a survey of philosophical tendencies, 1937
• Philosophy of business, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945.
• Plato's theory of education, 1947.
• The great thinkers, 1949.
• Applied philosophy, 1951.
• Plato's theory of art, 1953.
• The philosophy of Plato, 1956.

Notes and References

1. Elizabeth A. Trott, Lodge, Rupert Clendon, The Canadian Encyclopedia.
2. http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/lodge_rc.shtml Memorable Manitobans: Rupert C. Lodge (1886-1961)