Ralph Barton Perry

Ralph Barton Perry
Born(1876-07-03)July 3, 1876
Poultney, Vermont
DiedJanuary 22, 1957(1957-01-22) (aged 80)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Burial placeMount Auburn Cemetery
Education
OccupationPhilosopher
Spouse
Rachel Berenson
(m. 1905)
Children2

Ralph Barton Perry (July 3, 1876 – January 22, 1957) was an American philosopher. He was a strident moral idealist who stated in 1909 that, to him, idealism meant "to interpret life consistently with ethical, scientific, and metaphysical truth." Perry's viewpoints on religion stressed the notion that religious thinking possessed legitimacy should it exist within a framework accepting of human reason and social progress.[1]

  1. ^ Perry, Ralph B. (1909). The Moral Economy. Charles Scribner. pp. 248–256.