Iredell Jenkins
Iredell Jenkins (12 August 1909 – 9 April 1988) was an American philosopher and educator.
Biography
Iredell Jenkins was born in Blue Ridge Summit, Maryland, the son of James Iredell and his wife Mary (née Dobie).
He did his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Virginia, where he took his BA in 1933, his MA in 1934 and his PhD in 1937. Between receiving these last two degrees, he studied for a year in Paris under fellowship from the American University Field Service Fellowships. After taking the PhD degree, Jenkins taught at Tulane University for nine years, then at Yale University for three years.
Jenkins was a member and Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alabama from 1949 until his retirement in 1978.
He married Isabel Lawson Cook on December 27, 1934. They had two children.
Works
- Art and the Human Enterprise (1958)
- Social Order and the Limits of Law: A Theoretical Essay (1980)[1]
Selected publications
- "The Postulate of an Impoverished Reality," Journal of Philosophy 39 (20):533–47 (1942)
- "Logical Positivism, Critical Idealism, and the Concept of Man," Journal of Philosophy 47 (24):677–95 (1950)
- "Rudolf von Jhering," Vanderbilt Law Review 14: 169–90 (1960)
- "The Matrix of Positive Law," The American Journal of Jurisprudence 6 (1):1–50 (1961)
- "The Case for Moral Cognitivism," Tulane Studies in Philosophy 18 (1969)
- "The Concept of Rights and the Competence of Courts," The American Journal of Jurisprudence 18 (1):1–17 (1973)
- "The Rule of Law Versus the Call of Conscience," The American Journal of Jurisprudence 23 (1):169–80 (1978)
- "Judicial Activism and Constitutional Government," The American Journal of Jurisprudence 29 (1):169–97 (1984)
Collaborations
- "The Modes of Law." In: Experience, Existence and the Good (1961)
- "The Modern Distemper: The Failure of Purposiveness." In: The Concept of Order (1968)
- "Performance." In: Aesthetic Concepts and Education (1970)
- "Aesthetic Education and Moral Refinement." In: Aesthetics and Problems of Education (1971)
- "Authority: Its Nature and Locus." In: Authority: A Philosophical Analysis (1976)
- "The Human Person and the Legal Person." In: Equality and Freedom, International and Comparative Jurisprudence, Vol. II (1977)
Notes
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