Henry Bugbee
philosopher (1915-1999)
Henry Bugbee (19 February 1915 – 18 December 1999) was an American philosopher and professor. In his writing he explored a strain of existentialist thought with a distinctive emphasis on wilderness.
In his best known work, The Inward Morning: A Philosophical Exploration in Journal Form, Bugbee addresses the nature of consciousness and the meaning of place through reflections on his encounters with the natural world and his readings of past philosophers. Through these personal meditations, Bugbee presents a moving and urgent account of the way toward the integrated moral life.
Educated at Princeton and University of California, Berkeley, Bugbee taught at Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Montana, where he was named professor emeritus.
Biography
Henry Greenwood Bugbee Jr. was born 19 February 1915 in New York City, New York. In 1936 he received his B.A. in philosophy from Princeton. He enrolled at University of California, Berkeley, but he suspended his studies during World War II and served in the Navy as a commander of a minesweeper in the South Pacific. He returned to Berkeley after the war, and he received his PhD in 1947.
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