John Leofric Stocks DSO (26 October 1882 – 13 June 1937) was a British philosopher and was briefly

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of the

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in 1937.

Biography

Stocks was born the sixth of twelve children to John Edward Stocks, the vicar of Market Harborough, Leicestershire. He was educated at

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and

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and graduated in 1903. In 1906 he was an elected fellow and tutor of St. John's College, Oxford. Except for war service, he remained there until 1924. Stocks served in the British Army with the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the

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, and he was awarded the

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for gallantry at Beaucourt. In 1924, he was elected professor of philosophy at the

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, and in 1936, he was appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Liverpool. His professional philosophical interests were in Aristotelian studies and Epicureanism. In fact, he was president of the Aristotelian Society. He edited the Leaders of Philosophy book series ( Ernest Benn Ltd.). He married Mary Danvers Brinton, who was later Baroness Stocks, with whom he had a son and two daughters. Stocks died on a visit to Swansea in 1937. Stocks was also a versatile sportsman and played rugby, hockey and cricket.Charlton, H. B. (1951). ''Portrait of a University''. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 129-130

Bibliography

Written by John Leofric Stocks

*
The Old Town Hall Library of Leicester
' (Corporation of Leicester, 1919). Joint authors: Cecil Deedes and J. E. Stocks. *
Aristotle's Definition of the Human Good
' (Blackwell, 1919) *
Patriotism and the Super-State
' (The Swarthmore Press and Harcourt, Brace & Howe, 1920; book series: International Relations Series) *
The Voice of the People
' (Wells Gardner, Darton & CO., Ltd., 1920) *
Aristotlelianism
' (Marshall Jones Company. 1925; book series: Our Debt to Greece and Rome) *
An Introduction to Philosophy
' (Ernest Benn Ltd., 1929: Benn's Sixpenny Library) * ''The Limits of Purpose'' (1932) * ''Time, Cause and Eternity'' (Macmillan, 1938) *
Reason and Intuition, and Other Essays
' (Oxford University Press, 1939) *
Morality and Purpose
' (Schocken Books, 1969; book series: Studies in Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion)

Translated by John Leofric Stocks

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De Caelo (Aristotle's On the Heavens)
' (Oxford University Press, 1922)

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stocks, John Leofric 1882 births 1937 deaths Military personnel from Leicestershire People from Market Harborough 20th-century English philosophers British Army personnel of World War I Companions of the Distinguished Service Order King's Royal Rifle Corps officers Spouses of life peers Vice-Chancellors of the University of Liverpool Presidents of the Aristotelian Society