Otis Hamilton Lee

Otis Hamilton Lee (28 September 1902 – 17 September 1948) was an American philosopher, Rhodes scholar, and Guggenheim fellow.

Quotes

• The observer who follows, from a distance, events in contemporary Germany experiences above all a feeling of disbelief.
  • (1936). "Culture in the Third Realm". The International Journal of Ethics 47: 70–86. DOI:10.1086/intejethi.47.1.2989245.

• The philosophy of Hegel shares two traits with the thought of the great moderns who preceded him: a conscious concern with method, and the application of method to the construction of a philosophical system. In these respects Hegel profited by the efforts of his predecessors, in that he saw clearly the great common danger of method and system; namely, that both have a tendency to narrowness.
  • (July 1939)"Method and System in Hegel". The Philosophical Review 48 (4): 355–380. DOI:10.2307/2180720.

• Philosophy is the attempt to formulate principles or categories which the philosopher already possesses, in common with everyone else, but in an unformulated state.
  • (1940). "Philosophy and Science". Philosophy of Science 7: 7–17. DOI:10.1086/286600.

• The idea of an object is the idea of its effects, of what it will do, and of what will happen to it, under various conditions.
  • (June 1948)"Pragmatism and Existence". The Review of Metaphysics 1 (4): 32–58.