H. P. Grice, "Bradleyiana"

BRADLEYIANUM IMPICATUM -- Bradley, F(rancis) H(erbert) (1846–1924) British neo-Hegelian idealist, born in Glasbury, Brecknockshire, a fellow at Merton College, Oxford, from 1870. In his most important work, Appearance and Reality (1893), Bradley conceived absolute reality to be a single, self-differentiating whole and the only subject of predicates. The Absolute includes appearances but also transcends them. Many common categories, such as relation and time, are selfcontradictory and hence are mere appearances. In Ethical Studies (1876), he criticized Mill’s utilitarianism from a Hegelian point of view and took selfrealization as the end of morality. His other works are the Principles of Logic (1883) and Essays on Truth and Reality (1914). Bradley was one of the major targets of Moore and Russell in their turn from absolute idealism to philosophical analysis.