Guy Cromwell Field FBA (15 January 1887 – 28 April 1955) was a British philosopher. He was Professor of Philosophy, at the

University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

1926–1952 and its Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1944–1945 and 1947–1952. He was the grandson of

Jesse Collings Jesse Collings (2 December 1831 – 20 November 1920) was Mayor of Birmingham, England, a Liberal (later Liberal Unionist) member of Parliament, but was best known nationally in the UK as an advocate of educational reform and land reform.Ashb ...

Works

Field published: *''Guild Socialism'' (1920) *''Moral Theory'' (1921) *''Plato and his Contemporaries'' (1930) *''Studies in Philosophies'' (1935) *''Pacifism and Conscientious Objection'' (1945) *''The Philosophy of Plato'' (1949) *''Political Theory'' (1956)

References

* ‘FIELD, Guy Cromwell’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
accessed 15 February 2012

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Field, G. C. 1887 births 1955 deaths Fellows of the British Academy 20th-century British philosophers Presidents of the Aristotelian Society Classical scholars of the University of Bristol