Leslie Dewart was a Canadian philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Department of Philosophy and the Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.
11 Facts About Leslie Dewart
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Leslie Dewart then began his studies at the University of Toronto.
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Leslie Dewart first graduated with a BA in Honours Psychology in 1951.
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Leslie Dewart then enrolled in the Graduate Department of Philosophy, receiving his MA in 1952 and his PhD quickly thereafter in 1954.
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Leslie Dewart began his teaching career in Philosophy at the University of Detroit in 1954, then returned to Toronto to teach at St Michael's College in its then independent Department of Philosophy from 1956 to 1968.
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Leslie Dewart was appointed to the Department of Philosophy, School of Graduate Studies in 1961.
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This, Leslie Dewart advised, will help one understand the man, before his name disappears from philosophical memory, given that he was not a professional theologian.
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Part of the problem, Leslie Dewart emphasizes, is the incorrect grasp of the meaning of science which must understand itself before it can be reconciled with religion.
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Three particular convictions that form a core for all Leslie Dewart's books arose from his investigation of Pearson's scientific philosophy.
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Leslie Dewart identifies the development of human conscious re-conceptualization as dehellenization, which is a positive term.
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The religious perspective motivates Leslie Dewart's thinking, to varying degrees throughout all his works, and it is by his own words that his notion of dehellenization is expressed most succinctly.