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John Robert Jones (4 September
John Robert Jones (4 September 1911
A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole.
Events January
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– 3 June 1970
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), was a Welsh
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philosopher.
He was born in Pwllheli
Pwllheli () is a market town and community of the Llŷn Peninsula ( cy, Penrhyn Llŷn) in Gwynedd, north-western Wales. It had a population of 4,076 in 2011 of whom a large proportion, 81%, are Welsh language, Welsh speaking. Pwllheli is the pl ...
, and went to school there before going on to study philosophy at University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1929. He went on to take his D.Phil. at Balliol College, Oxford
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. He returned to Aberystwyth to lecture in philosophy, and in 1952 was appointed Professor of Philosophy at University of Wales, Swansea. In 1961 he was visiting professor at Chapel Hill University, North Carolina
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. On his return to Wales, he became more politically active, speaking out against the investiture of Charles, Prince of Wales, in 1969, resigning from the Gorsedd
A gorsedd (, plural ''gorseddau'') is a community or meeting of modern-day bards. The word is of Welsh origin, meaning "throne". It is spelled gorsedh in Cornish and goursez in Breton.
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of Bards in protest.
As a philosopher, he was influenced by Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( ; ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrians, Austrian-British people, British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy o ...
and Simone Weil
Simone Adolphine Weil ( , ; 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist. Over 2,500 scholarly works have been published about her, including close analyses and readings of her work, since 1995.
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. His writings dealt mainly with three problems: the nature of the self, the nature of perception, and the nature of universals.
Works
*''Yr Argyfwng Gwacter Ystyr'' (1964) *''Prydeindod'' (1966) *''A rhaid i'r iaith ein gwahanu?'' (1967) *''Ni fyn y taeog mo'i ryddhau'' (1968) *''Yr ewyllys i barhau'' (1969) *''Gwaedd yng Nghymru'' (1970) *''Ac Onide'' (1970)References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, John Robert 1911 births 1970 deaths People from Gwynedd Welsh philosophers 20th-century British philosophers 20th-century Welsh writers 20th-century Welsh educators