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John Hospers was born on 9 June, 1918 in Pella, Iowa, U.S., is an American philosopher and politician (1918–2011). Discover John Hospers'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 93 years old?

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Age 93 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 9 June, 1918
Birthday 9 June
Birthplace Pella, Iowa, U.S.
Date of death 12 June, 2011
Died Place Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1918

John Hospers (June 9, 1918 – June 12, 2011) was an American philosopher and political activist.

Hospers was interested in Objectivism, and was once a friend of the philosopher Ayn Rand, though she later broke with him.

John Hospers was born on June 9, 1918, in Pella, Iowa, the son of Dena Helena (Verhey) and John De Gelder Hospers.

1939

He graduated from Central College in 1939 before earning an MA in English from the University of Iowa in 1942 and a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University in 1946.

He conducted research, wrote, and taught in areas of philosophy, including aesthetics and ethics.

1957

Hospers read Atlas Shrugged (1957), which he considered an aesthetic triumph.

Although Hospers became convinced of the validity of Rand's moral and political views, he disagreed with her about issues of epistemology, the subject of their extensive correspondence.

Hospers also disagreed with Rand about free will (with him favoring determinism, while she advocated a libertarian view) and conscription (Hospers supported it, Rand opposed this).

Rand broke with Hospers after he, in his position as moderator, critiqued her address, and she felt he had criticized her talk on "Art and Sense of Life" before the American Society of Aesthetics at Harvard.

1966

He taught philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Brooklyn College, California State College Los Angeles (1966–1968) and at the University of Southern California, where for many years he was chairman of the philosophy department and professor emeritus.

1968

Hospers was editor of The Personalist (1968–1982) and The Monist (1982–1992), and was a senior editor at Liberty magazine.

1972

In 1972, Hospers became the first presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party, and was the only minor party candidate to receive an electoral vote in that year's U.S. presidential election.

In the 1972 U.S. presidential election, Hospers and Tonie Nathan were the first presidential and vice-presidential nominees, respectively, of the newly formed Libertarian Party.

The Libertarian Party was poorly organized, and Hospers and Nathan managed to get on the ballot in only two states (Washington and Colorado), receiving 3,674 popular votes.

Hospers and Nathan received one electoral vote from faithless elector Roger MacBride, a Republican from Virginia, resulting in Nathan's becoming the first woman and the first Jew to receive an electoral vote in a United States presidential election.

1978

Additionally Hospers wrote the article "Art and Morality" for the Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (JCLA), Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 1978.

1991

By 1991, Hospers had left the Libertarians for the Republican Party, where he helped establish the Republican Liberty Caucus.

1998

He adopted more conventionally conservative views in his later writings: in 1998, he wrote an article rejecting open border immigration, and in a 2007 revision of his book Libertarianism, he said he supported the Iraq War.

Hospers' books include:

Hospers was editor of three anthologies, and contributed to books edited by others.

He wrote more than 100 articles in various scholarly and popular journals.

2002

In 2002, an hour-long video about Hospers' life, work, and philosophy was released by the Liberty Fund of Indianapolis, as part of its Classics of Liberty series.

Multiple sources, including the Libertarian Party, have referred to Hospers as the first openly gay man to run for president of the United States.

However, when The Guardian referred to him as such in his obituary, his family wrote to the newspaper to "strenuously" deny that he was gay.

2011

Hospers died in Los Angeles on June 12, 2011, at the age of 93.

During the period he taught philosophy at Brooklyn College, Hospers was very interested in Objectivism.

He appeared on radio shows with Ayn Rand, and devoted considerable attention to her ideas in his ethics textbook Human Conduct.

According to Rand's biographer, Barbara Branden, Hospers met Rand when she addressed the student body at Brooklyn College.

They became friends, and had lengthy philosophical conversations.

Rand's discussions with Hospers contributed to her decision to write non-fiction.