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J. M. E. McTaggart

1866 - 1925

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John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart (3 September 1866 – 18 January 1925) was an English idealist metaphysician. For most of his life McTaggart was a fellow and lecturer in philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was an exponent of the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and among the most notable of the British idealists. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. M. E. McTaggart has received more than 207,085 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). J. M. E. McTaggart is the 984th most popular philosopher (down from 883rd in 2019), the 2,528th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,216th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular British Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, J. M. E. McTaggart ranks 984 out of 1,267. Before him are Guillaume Faye, Wilfrid Sellars, Persaeus, Anna Kingsford, Ivan Aksakov, and Gottlob Ernst Schulze. After him are Wei Yuan, Achille Mbembe, Ernst Tugendhat, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Dimitri Kitsikis, and Athenodorus Cananites.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, J. M. E. McTaggart ranks 96. Before him are Antonia Maury, Erik Ivar Fredholm, James J. Corbett, J. B. M. Hertzog, Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Alexey Troitsky. After him are Prince Aribert of Anhalt, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin, Johannes Jørgensen, Ernest William Brown, Jaan Poska, and Alexander Protopopov. Among people deceased in 1925, J. M. E. McTaggart ranks 95. Before him are Leo Fall, Fanny Bullock Workman, Carl Neumann, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, and Giovanni Battista Grassi. After him are Alfred Perot, Ephraim Moses Lilien, Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg, George Bellows, Anna Kuliscioff, and Geo Milev.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, J. M. E. McTaggart ranks 2,528 out of 8,785. Before him are Minnie Driver (1970), Divina Galica (1944), Jane Asher (1946), Leonard Hobhouse (1864), Henri Alleg (1921), and Daniel Jones (1881). After him are Henry Taylor (1885), J. Stuart Blackton (1875), Harry Seeley (1839), Hugh Despenser the younger (1287), Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831), and James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce (1838).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, J. M. E. McTaggart ranks 62. Before him are Bernard Williams (1929), John Scott Haldane (1860), Richard Swinburne (1934), Martin Lings (1909), Samuel Clarke (1675), and Anna Kingsford (1846). After him are Thomas Arnold (1795), Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678), John Hick (1922), R. M. Hare (1919), Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659), and Michael Oakeshott (1901).

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