Joseph John Rickaby,
SJ (1845-1932) was an English
Jesuit
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priest and philosopher.
Life
Rickaby was born in 1845 in
Everingham
Everingham is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is west of Market Weighton town centre and south of Pocklington town centre.
The village lies in a civil parish also officially called "Everingham" by the Office for Nati ...
,
York
York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...
. He received his education at
Stonyhurst College
Stonyhurst College is a co-educational Catholic Church, Roman Catholic independent school, adhering to the Society of Jesus, Jesuit tradition, on the Stonyhurst, Stonyhurst Estate, Lancashire, England. It occupies a Grade I listed building. Th ...
, and was ordained in 1877, one of the so-called ''Stonyhurst Philosophers'', along with Richard F. Clarke, Herbert Lucas, and his own brother, John Rickaby. a significant group for
neo-scholasticism
Neo-scholasticism (also known as neo-scholastic Thomism Accessed 27 March 2013 or neo-Thomism because of the great influence of the writings of Thomas Aquinas on the movement) is a revival and development of medieval scholasticism in Catholic the ...
in England. At the time he was at
St Beuno's, he was on friendly terms with
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame placed him among leading Victorian poets. His prosody – notably his concept of sprung rhythm – established him as an innovato ...
; they were ordained on the same day.
He was affiliated with
Clarke's Hall in
Worcester College, Oxford
Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet (1648–1701) of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms w ...
. He would deliver conferences to Catholic undergraduates of Oxford and Cambridge.
[His work]
is quoted by Charles E. Raven in ''Science, Religion, and The Future'' (1943, p. 9).
Works
* ''Aquinas Ethicus'', a translation of the principal portions of the Second Part of the ''Summa Theologica'', in two volumes
''Volume 1''
an
''Volume 2''
(1892)
''The First Principles of Knowledge''
(1888)
''Notes on St. Paul: Corinthians, Galatians, Romans''
(1898)
''Oxford & Cambridge Conferences 1897-1899''
(1899)
''Political and Moral Essays''
(1902)
''Free Will and Four English Philosophers: Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Mill''
(1906)
''The Divinity of Christ''
a lecture(1906)
''Scholasticism''
(1908)
''Four-Square: or, The Cardinal Virtues''
(1908)
''Newman Memorial Sermon''
(1910)
''An Index to the Works of John Henry Cardinal Newman''
(1914)
''Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law''
(1918)
''Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues''
a translation from the original Spanish of Alphonsus (Alonso) Rodriguez's ''Ejercicio de Perfección y Virtudes Cristianas'', complete in two volumes (1929).
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References
External links
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Online books page
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1845 births
1932 deaths
19th-century English Jesuits
20th-century English Jesuits
People educated at Stonyhurst College