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Henry Longueville Mansel

Henry Longueville Mansel

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Henry Longueville Mansel , 1820–71, English philosopher and theologian. A disciple of Sir William Hamilton, he systematized his teacher's conception of the relativity of knowledge, and in his famous Bampton Lectures, The Limits of Religious Thought Examined (1858), he applied the conception to religion, denying the possibility of any knowledge of the absolute and asserting the necessity of faith. Other works include Prolegomena Logica (1851), Metaphysics (1860), and Philosophy of the Conditioned (1866).

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Mansel, Henry Longueville (1820–71), Dean of St Paul's from 1868. In his Bampton Lectures of 1858 on The Limits of Religious Thought, he argued that the limitations of the human intellect meant that the truths of religion are not speculative but regulative. God is in Himself unknowable and human knowledge of the nature of God is acquired from supernatural revelation alone. His contentions provoked much criticism.
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