Denis John Bernard Hawkins (17 July 1906 – 16 January 1964) was a British philosopher and Roman Catholic priest.[1]

Hawkins was born in Thornton Heath and attended Whitgift School, Croydon.[2] He obtained his doctorates in philosophy (1927) and theology (1931) from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.[2]

He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1930 for the diocese of Southwark.[2] He was a parish priest in Claygate in 1940 and received an honorary canon of the diocese of Southwark in 1956. Hawkins was a neo-Thomist and updated Thomism with modern thought.[2] He was influenced by the realism of Thomas Aquinas, that the human mind can know external reality. He also defended a form of direct realism and an intuitive perception theory.[2] In a review, William Kneale described Hawkins' The Criticism of Experience as a restatement of the Scottish common sense school.[3]

Selected publications

  • Causality and Implication (1937)
  • Approach to Philosophy (1938)
  • The Criticism of Experience (1945)
  • A Sketch of Medieval Philosophy (1947, 1968)[4]
  • The Essentials of Theism (1950)[5]
  • Being and Becoming (1954)
  • Crucial Problems of Modern Philosophy (1957)
  • Man and Morals (1960)
  • Christian Morality (1963)

References

  1. ↑ "Hawkins, Denis John Bernard". New Catholic Encyclopedia. The Gale Group, 2003.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Denis John Bernard Hawkins". Oxford Reference. Ed. Retrieved 18 Feb. 2019
  3. ↑ Kneale, William. (1946). Reviewed Work: The Criticism of Experience by D. J. B. Hawkins. Philosophy 21 (79): 180–181.
  4. ↑ Carré, M. H. (1947). Reviewed Work: A Sketch of Mediaeval Philosophy by D. J. B. Hawkins. Philosophy 22 (81): 81–82.
  5. ↑ Campbell, C. A. (1950). Reviewed Work: The Essentials of Theism by D. J. B. Hawkins. The Philosophical Quarterly 1 (1): 87–88.


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