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Maurice Cranston (Maurice William Cranston) was born on 8 May, 1920 in Harringay, Middlesex, England, UK, is a British philosopher. Discover Maurice Cranston's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?
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Maurice William Cranston |
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Philosopher, professor, and author |
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73 years old |
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Taurus |
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8 May 1920 |
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8 May |
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Harringay, Middlesex, England, UK |
Date of death |
5 November, 1993 |
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Camden, London, England, UK |
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Italy
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Maurice William Cranston (8 May 1920 – 5 November 1993) was a British philosopher, professor and author.
He served for many years as Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, and was also known for his popular publications.
In 1946 two of his detective novels were published by John Westhouse: Tomorrow We'll Be Sober and Philosopher's Hemlock.
Under the name Michael Stone, he also wrote a children's school story The Master of Magic, published by Peter Lunn in 1947.
Cranston's intellectual interests were varied.
His first academic book, Freedom: A New Analysis (1954), covered history (the history of liberalism), politics (a precursive discussion of what Sir Isaiah Berlin would later analyse as negative and positive liberty) and a philosophical attempt to resolve or at least elucidate freedom of the will.
The philosophical section was the least successful; and Cranston never again attempted pure philosophy.
His main academic strengths were as a biographer and as an intellectual historian.
In a controversial paper, Cranston argued that the scarcity of welfare goods and services meant that supposed welfare rights are not really rights at all.
In his later years, Cranston moved to the political right, and expressed admiration for Margaret Thatcher.
Cranston also contributed to The American Spectator magazine.
Cranston had a keen aesthetic sensibility.
This was shown not only in his clothes but also in his elegant literary style.
Elegance extended also to his conversation.
Cranston's major works include biographies of John Locke, for which he received the 1957 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and Rousseau, Jean-Paul Sartre and others addressing the history of liberty.
He contributed to many publications in both Britain and the United States and wrote scripts for the BBC.
At a party for politics students at the London School of Economics in 1965, sherry was much in demand.
Professor Kingsley Smellie pointed to a bottle and said to Cranston: "I hope you've ordered buckets of that stuff".
"I have", Cranston replied without malice, "not quite in those terms".
Maurice Cranston was married twice; his first wife was the film editor Helga May his second wife was Baroness Maximiliana von und zu Fraunberg ("Iliana"), with whom he had two children.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s he was Professor of Political Theory at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy).
He was born at 53 Harringay Road, Harringay and educated at South Harringay School, the University of London and St Catherine's College, Oxford.
As a young man, Cranston was a friend of the painter Denton Welch, and was immortalised as "Markham" in Welch's short story, "Touchett's Party".
During the Second World War, Cranston was a conscientious objector, active in the Peace Pledge Union, and a "frequent contributor" to its newspaper Peace News.
He died on 5 November 1993 of a heart attack while taping a television production in London for the BBC.
He had completed work on the third and final volume of his acclaimed Rousseau biography, which was published posthumously in 1997.