Emmanuel Chapman
Emmanuel Harrison Chapman (7 February 1905 – 17 April 1948) was an American academic and social activist.
Biography
Emmanuel Chapman was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Harry Chapman and his wife Clara (née Skoor). From a Orthodox Jewish family, he was educated at the University of Chicago (1921–1924), Loyola University (1930–1931) and the University of Toronto (1931–1934).
In the late 1920's, Chapman lived briefly in Paris, where he converted to Catholicism due to Maritain's personal influence.
Chapman was instructor in philosophy at the University of Toronto (1931–1934), University of Notre Dame (1934–1936),[1] associate professor of philosophy at Fordham University (1936–1944) and finally professor at the department psychology and philosophy at Hunter College, New York City.[2]
He founded the Committee of Catholics to Fight Anti-Semitism, later the Committee of Catholics for Human Rights. Likewise, Chapman was on the board of directors of the Greater New York committee for Japanese Americans. He was a member of the national advisory board for the Commision on Law and Social Action and on the editorial advisory board at WEVD radio station.
Works
- St. Augustine's Philosophy of Beauty (1936; 1939)
- "Some Aspects of St. Augustine's Philosophy of Beauty," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. I, No. 1 (1941)
- "The Perennial Theme of Beauty and Art." In: Robert Edward Brennan, ed., Essays in Thomism (1942)
- "Living Thomism," The Thomist, Vol. IV, No. 3 (1942)
- "To be—That is the Answer," The Thomist, Vol. V (1943)
Notes
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References
- Gallagher, Charles R. (2014). "Anti-Semitism and Catholic Aesthetics: Jacques Maritain's Role in the Religious Conversion of Emmanuel H. Chapman," U.S. Catholic Historian, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, pp. 67–90.
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