BRIGHTMAN, EDGAR SHEFFIELD

(1884-1953) Professor at Boston; wrote The Problem of God . Personalist philosopher; held to finite view of God; Philosophy of Spirit ; spirit is ultimate reality but not same as Hegel ian thought; man not only a purely physical being but also a spiritual one; all things (even inanimate things) have a kind of spiritual life of their own; emphasized on spirit as the agent of action, rather than merely thought; strong empirical emphasized