Volume 5, Number 8 · November 25, 1965
It's All in Your Mind
By Morton White
Freedom of the Individual
by Stuart Hampshire
Harper & Row, 112 pp., $3.95
Because Professor Stuart Hampshire of Princeton is a philosophical analyst who can write very well, who is learned without being pompous, and civilized without being an intellectual snob, he represents something extremely valuable in philosophy today. Hampshire has written on fiction, on politics, and on contrary-to-fact conditionals; he has expounded Spinoza brilliantly for Penguin Books; he has edited a Mentor paperback on the Age of Reason. And unlike so many of his contemporaries among British and American philosophers, Hampshire is neither a manqué mathematician nor a pedant, as his book Thought and Action clearly shows. He is, to his credit, a humanist who argues for his views, and he can do so effectively in a variety of situations—from All Souls to Princeton, and from the pages of the Oxford Mind, to those of London's New Statesman. Hampshire is, I dare say, American philosophy's most versatile English acquisition since Whitehead.
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