Otis Hamilton Lee

Otis Hamilton Lee (28 September 1902 – 17 September 1948) was an American philosopher, Rhodes scholar, and Guggenheim fellow. Quotes The observer who follows, from a distance, events in contemporary Germany experiences above all a feeling of disbelief. 10.1086/intejethi.47.1.2989245 Culture in the Third Realm The International Journal of Ethics 47 70–86 1936 Lee Otis The philosophy of Hegel shares two traits with the thought of the great moderns who preceded him: a conscious concern with method, and the application of method to the construction of a philosophical system. In these respects Hegel profited by the efforts of his predecessors, in that he saw clearly the great common danger of method and system; namely, that both have a tendency to narrowness. Method and System in Hegel The Philosophical Review 48 4 July 1939 355–380 https://www.pdcnet.org/phr/content/phr_1939_0048_0004_0355_0380 10.2307/2180720 2180720 Philosophy is the attempt to formulate principles or categories which the philosopher already possesses, in common with everyone else, but in an unformulated state. 10.1086/286600 Philosophy and Science Philosophy of Science 7 7–17 1940 Lee Otis The idea of an object is the idea of its effects, of what it will do, and of what will happen to it, under various conditions. The Review of Metaphysics 1 4 June 1948 32–58 Pragmatism and Existence https://www.pdcnet.org/revmetaph/content/revmetaph_1948_0001_0004_0032_0058 External links Category:Academics from the United States Category:Philosophers from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:People from Minnesota Category:1902 births Category:1948 deaths Category:Guggenheim Fellows Category:Harvard University alumni Category:University of Oxford alumni