Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will
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Moral Philosophy: Including Theoretical and Practical Ethics
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Joseph Haven he was an American clergyman, scholar and educator. He served as a pastor of the Congregational church, and as professor of mental and moral philosophy in Amherst College and in the University of Chicago.
Background
Joseph Haven was born on January 4, 1816, in Dennis, Massachussets, United States. He was the son of Reverend Joseph Haven and Elizabeth Sparrow, and a descendant of Richard Haven who was a resident of Lynn, Massachussets, in 1645. While he was still a child, his parents removed to Amherst, and here, in the quiet, cultural atmosphere of a clergyman's home and amid the outdoor delights of one of the most charming of Massachusetts towns, he passed his boyhood.
Education
Prepared at the local academy, Haven entered Amherst College in 1831. His studies were largely confined to the classical languages and history, with scattered courses in mathematics, science, and philosophy.
At his graduation in 1835 as a Bachelor of Arts, he delivered the class oration on "Sources of Superstition. "
For two years he taught in an institution for deaf mutes in New York City, and at the same time began his theological studies at the Union Theological Seminary. In 1837 he went to the Andover Theological Seminary.
In 1838 he received his Master of Arts degree from Amherst College, and in 1839 he got his professional degree from the Andover Theological Seminary.
Career
In the November following his graduation, Haven was ordained and installed pastor of the Congregational church in Ashland, Massachussets. From this pastorate he was called in 1846 to the Harvard Congregational Church in Brookline, Massachussets, where he remained four years. In addition to his pastoral duties in this large and important parish, he did editorial work on the Congregationalist, of which, with Edward Beecher and Doctor Increase N. Tarbox, he was one of the original editors.
A crisis came in his career in 1850, when he was called to the chair of mental and moral philosophy in Amherst College. Assuming the duties of this professorship in January of the next year, he definitely abandoned the ministry, and gave himself henceforth to a life of teaching and study.
After seven years at Amherst, he resigned, in August 1858, to accept a call to the chair of systematic theology in the Chicago Theological Seminary, which had been chartered in 1855 without faculty or sufficient funds.
Haven opened the school with Franklin W. Fisk and Samuel C. Bartlett as his associates. "These three men, " writes President Ozora Stearns Davis, "are known in our tradition and history as the great trinity of the early days. " Haven remained at Chicago until 1870, when he resigned on account of failing health.
After a period of travel in Europe and the Near East, including Palestine, and of preaching and lecturing after his return home, he became in 1873 acting professor of mental and moral philosophy in the University of Chicago, and was engaged in the duties of this office until his death, from typhoid fever complicated with inflammatory rheumatism, in the fifty-eighth year of his age.
When traveling in the Near East he found classes in Syria and Turkey conducted with his textbooks as guides. His greatest work was undoubtedly done at the Chicago Theological Seminary which he served during the first decade of its history while in the full maturity of his powers and ripeness of his scholarship.
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Religion
In religion Haven was evangelical, but "one of the most liberal and progressive theologians of the time. "
Personality
It was said of Haven in his early years at Amherst that "he taught the Scotch philosophy with a logical clearness and force worthy of the system, and with a felicity of illustration and a vein of humor that were all his own. " In his maturer days he had the reputation of "making even the driest subject interesting. " Not an imparter of facts merely, he was a living force of eloquence and passion.
His preaching had simplicity and elegance, and was welcomed in churches of many denominations.
Connections
Haven's wife, Mary, was the daughter of Professor Ralph Emerson, whom he married on September 23, 1840. He had ten children, four of whom, with Mrs. Haven, survived him.