Denis John Bernard Hawkins (17 July 1906 – 16 January 1964) was a British philosopher and 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
edit- 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
edit- ^ "Hawkins, Denis John Bernard". New Catholic Encyclopedia. The Gale Group, 2003.
- ^ a b c d e "Denis John Bernard Hawkins". Oxford Reference. Ed. Retrieved 18 Feb. 2019
- ^ Kneale, William. (1946). Reviewed Work: The Criticism of Experience by D. J. B. Hawkins. Philosophy 21 (79): 180–181.
- ^ Carré, M. H. (1947). Reviewed Work: A Sketch of Mediaeval Philosophy by D. J. B. Hawkins. Philosophy 22 (81): 81–82.
- ^ 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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