Hastings Rashdall

Philosophy and Religion (Esprios Classics) Hastings Rashdall

Hastings Rashdall FBA (24 June 1858 - 9 February 1924) was an English philosopher, theologian, historian, and Anglican priest. He expounded a theory known as ideal utilitarianism, and he was a major historian of the universities of the Middle Ages. Born in Kensington, London, Rashdall was the son of an Anglican priest. He was educated at Harrow and received a scholarship for New College, Oxford. After short tenures at St David's University College and University College, Durham, Rashdall was made a Fellow of first Hertford College, Oxford, then New College, Oxford, and dedicates his main work, The Theory of Good and Evil (1907), to the memory of his teachers T. H. Green and Henry Sidgwick. Rashdall received the degree Doctor of Letters (DL) from New College, Oxford, in October 1901.