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He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of George Fite and Sallie Gibbs Liddle Fite.
He graduated from Haverford College in 1889, then spent a year in the Philadelphia Divinity School. In 1894 he received the Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Fite was a member of no one school of philosophic thought, although his concern for the importance of the individual is a recurrent theme in his eight published works and in his lectures.
His lectures at the University of Chicago in 1909 (published two years later with some additions as Individualism: Four Lectures on the Significance of Consciousness for Social Relations) were an early defense of the cause of the individual and an attack on the view that society had come to stand for positive values while the individual represented negative ones.
Fite taught first at Williams College, where he also served as dean of the faculty from 1895 until 1897. He then became an instructor at the University of Chicago (1897 - 1901).
On his return Fite became an instructor, successively, at the University of Texas (1903 - 1906), Indiana University (1906 - 1908), and Harvard University (1911 - 1912).
He was acting professor of philosophy at Leland Stanford Jr. University (1913) before becoming a member of the philosophy department at Princeton University in 1915.
Fite remained at Princeton--in time holding the chair of Stuart professor of ethics--until his retirement in 1935. Fite was a member of no one school of philosophic thought, although his concern for the importance of the individual is a recurrent theme in his eight published works and in his lectures.
His lectures at the University of Chicago in 1909 (published two years later with some additions as Individualism: Four Lectures on the Significance of Consciousness for Social Relations) were an early defense of the cause of the individual and an attack on the view that society had come to stand for positive values while the individual represented negative ones.
His theses were, first, that the individual as a conscious agent is the source and measure of all value and, second, that the interests of conscious individuals are essentially harmonious. Older concepts of individualism had been dominated, he believed, by the idea of laissez-faire, hence by the idea of an antithesis between individualism and socialism.
In Fite's view, there is no antithesis: "For the conscious agent, freedom is freedom of choice, and there is a question not of absence of impediment, but of presence of variety of opportunity, which is secured only through social organization. " Fite's Moral Philosophy--The Critical View of Life (1925) further focused on the importance of the "person. "
He continued to oppose what he called "metaphysical nonsense, " falling back on his confidence in individual capacity for self-assertion and self-control.
In Fite's most provocative--and to many of his colleagues, most provoking--book, The Platonic Legend (1934), he dissected the Dialogues and attacked the idealistic tradition that holds Plato to be the philosopher of the spiritual life.
In his final published essay, Jesus, the Man (1943), Fite described Jesus as a human personality--a "superior preacher of righteousness, " but not exceptional (that is, not supernatural) in his moral insights.
Fite was a regular contributor to scholarly magazines.
Fite spent his last years in Hopewell, New Jersey, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Older concepts of individualism had been dominated, he believed, by the idea of laissez-faire, hence by the idea of an antithesis between individualism and socialism.
Fite's point of view can be traced through all his earlier critical essays: "The moral philosopher is primarily a naturalist, interested in the varieties of men and of human ideals [who is] little concerned with distinctions of good and bad, or higher and lower kinds. 'Higher' and 'lower' are functions of the self-conscious intelligence with which each endeavors to realize himself or his kind. "
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While acknowledging Plato's place in political philosophy, he defined a mind that was prosaically scientific: "If Plato is to be regarded as a creative genius he belongs in the order of Aristotle and Darwin; and hardly in the order of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Beethoven, and Brahms.
At the beginning of his career he clearly stated his gauge of the moral life: "Between a too narrow and ignoble estimate of our moral capacity and a too highly strung effort to transcend our capacity, there is a certain constant adjustment of responsibility and capacity most favourable for a maximum of sustained growth. The man who arrives at this adjustment most nearly and maintains it most constantly, is he who best fulfills the demands of a genuine moral life" (An Introductory Study of Ethics, 1903).
While acknowledging Plato's place in political philosophy, he defined a mind that was prosaically scientific: "If Plato is to be regarded as a creative genius he belongs in the order of Aristotle and Darwin; and hardly in the order of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Beethoven, and Brahms. He is a scientific genius rather than an artistic genius. "
Fite concluded: "For [Plato] the spiritual life is exclusively 'intellectual, ' to be carried on in terms of logic and mathematics on behalf of impersonally 'great' ends; and for him the only concretely great end of life is the body politic. Of all the writers of antiquity he is perhaps the most characteristically and explicitly 'pagan. '"
He was a member of the philosophy department at Princeton University in 1915.
He was a member of the American Philosophical Association and was elected its president in 1934.
On June 29, 1901, he married Esther Wallace Sturges of Oak Park, Ill. They spent the next two years abroad, where Fite began postgraduate study in philosophy at the universities of Berlin and Munich. A year later his wife died, leaving three sons and a daughter.
On October 10, 1930, he married Florence Odell of Chicago; they had no children.