Joseph Rickaby

Joseph Rickaby

Joseph John Rickaby, SJ (1845 – 1932) was an English Jesuit priest and philosopher.

Life

[edit]

Rickaby was born in 1845 in Everingham, York. He received his education at Stonyhurst College, and was ordained in 1877, one of the so-called Stonyhurst Philosophers, a significant group for neo-scholasticism in England,[1] along with Richard F. Clarke, Herbert Lucas, and his own brother, John Rickaby.[2] At the time he was at St Beuno's, he was on friendly terms with Gerard Manley Hopkins;[3] they were ordained on the same day.

He was affiliated with Clarke's Hall in Worcester College, Oxford. He would deliver conferences to Catholic undergraduates of Oxford and Cambridge.[4][5] His work is quoted by Charles E. Raven in Science, Religion, and The Future (1943, p. 9).

Works

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Neo-Scholasticism". www.newadvent.org.
  2. ^ Jill Muller, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Victorian Catholicism: A Heart in Hiding (2003), p. 89
  3. ^ Joseph J. Feeney, The Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins (2008), p. 18.
  4. ^ Francis Cowley Burnand, The Catholic Who's who and Yearbook, Burns & Oates, 1908.
  5. ^ "Free will and four English philosophers : Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Mill /". worldcat.org.
[edit]