John Findlay, a Border Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, was known as an imaginative and comprehensive philosopher in an era that seemed dedicated to restricting the scope and depth of philosophical investigation. Born in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1903, Professor Findlay was educated at Transvaal University and Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and obtained his doctorate in 1933 at the University of Graz in Austria. Over the course of his career as a professor, he taught in South Africa, New Zealand, England, and in the United States at Texas University and Yale University, until arriving at Boston University in 1972, where he spent the rest of his career. Professor Findlay believed that modern philosophy had evaded its responsibility to explore the relationship between human behavior and moral values. Not only did he aim to explore and master every major current in American and European philosophy, he also explored Indian, Japanese, and Chinese thought.
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