Background
Webb, Clement Charles Julian was born on June 25, 1865 in London.
Webb, Clement Charles Julian was born on June 25, 1865 in London.
Christ Church, Oxford.
1880-1922, Fellow of Magdalen College. Oxford; 1920-1930. Oriel Professor of the Philosophy of Religion.
Although sometimes described as a "personal idealist’, Webb was an eclectic philosopher, responding to and drawing on a wide range of ancient and modem writers. He took from his teacher. Cook Wilson, a realism 'for which spirit is no less real than matter’. None the less he was closer to the absolute idealists than his friend Hastings Rashdall. He took up the controversy about individuality and personality in the first of his series of Gifford Lectures. He maintained that God cannot be finite but He is none the less personal. Webb was a prolific writer and capable of prodigious scholarship. His skill and care in attending to the thoughts of others was valued by his pupils, including W. D. Ross. But his written work has been less influential.