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Name: Sidney Hook
Birth Date: December 20, 1902
Death Date: July 12, 1989
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Place of Death: Stanford, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: philosopher

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Biography of Sidney Hook
906 words, approx. 3 pages
The philosopher Sidney Hook (1902-1989) was an exponent of classical American pragmatism. He brought the method of intelligence to bear on social issues, education, ethics, and philosophy itself. Sidney Hook was born on December 20, 1902, to Issac and...
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Biography of Sidney Hook
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Although Sidney Hook's academic work spans the gamut of philosophical inquiry, from metaphysics and epistemology to ethics, aesthetics, and philosophy of education, a set of central concerns runs through all of his work. These concerns, which reflect...


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Sidney Hook Information
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Sidney Hook (December 20 1902–July 12 1989) was a prominent New York intellectual and philosopher who championed...


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National Review
The heroism of Sidney Hook.
06/15/1984: 553 words, approx. 2 pages
ON MAY 14 in Washington, D.C., the philosopher Sidney Hook, recipient this year of the annual Jefferson Award of the National Endowment for the Humanities, delivered the accompanying Jefferson Lecture. It certainly would not be true to say that this was in any...
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National Review
Sidney Hook RIP. (obituary)
08/18/1989: 586 words, approx. 2 pages
WHEN SIDNEY HOOK and Whittaker Chambers met for the first time, in the 1930s, it was under the aegis of their mutual friend, the critic Lionel Trilling. Chambers, at the time, was still a dedicated agent of Stalinist Russia; Hook was an ardent...
 


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