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Charles Norris Cochrane (August 21, 1889 – November 23, 1945) was a Canadianhistorian and philosopher who taught at the University of Toronto.[1][2] He is known for his writings about the interaction between ancient Rome and emerging Christianity.
Cochrane was born in Omemee, Ontario. He attended the University of Toronto, graduating with a degree in Classics in 1911. He then attended the University of Oxford.[3]
During the First World War, Cochrane was active in the Canadian Officers Training Corps and in 1918 went overseas with the 1st Tank Battalion.[4]
After the war, in 1919, Cochrane joined the Faculty of Ancient History at the University of Toronto.[2]
His David Thompson the Explorer[5] appeared in 1924, his Thucydides and the Science of History[6] in 1929, and his best-known work, Christianity and Classical Culture, in 1940.[7][8] The last of these was praised by W. H. Auden,[9][10] and it was described by Harold Innis as "the first major Canadian contribution to the intellectual history of the West".[11] In it Cochrane investigated the political and cultural interaction between the Romans and Christians in the early days of Christianity.[12]
In 2017, a new collection of Cochrane's posthumously published writings and collected essays appeared, Augustine and the Problem of Power: The Essays and Lectures of Charles Norris Cochrane.[13] The title essay in this volume was originally delivered as the 1945 Nathaniel W. Taylor Lectures at the Yale University Divinity School. Cochrane expressed the opinion that the philosophy of Augustine largely replaced classical Greek philosophy as the dominant intellectual world view.[14]
コクレインは哲学と歴史学において、R・G・コリングウッドの影響を受けていた。[ 11 ]ヘーゲル哲学者のジェームズ・ドゥールは彼の教え子の一人だった。[ 15 ] [ 16 ]ドゥールの友人ジョージ・グラントもコクレインを非常に高く評価していた。[ 17 ]政治学者アーサー・クローカーは、キリスト教とニヒリズムの対立に関するコクレインの著作[ 18 ]と、「ローマやギリシャの世俗思想では解決できなかった、より大きな文化的危機への対応としてのキリスト教の生成起源」に関する彼の洞察を指摘し、コクレインを「20世紀を代表する文明哲学者の一人」と評した。[ 2 ]
彼は1941年にカナダ王立協会のフェローになった。 [ 19 ]
彼は1945年11月13日にトロントで亡くなった。[ 20 ]