TY - JOUR
T1 - The Religion of a skeptic
T2 - Frank H. Knight on ethics, spirituality, and religion during his Iowa years
AU - Emmett, Ross B.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Frank H. Knight's antagonism to religion is well known and features prominently in his writings from the 1930s on. But during the 1920s, when he was a professor at the University of Iowa and wrote some of his most important essays on the limitations of economics, Knight was an active participant in the Iowa City Unitarian Church. Drawing on research about his association with the Unitarian Church, and his unpublished writings from the period on religion, economics, and social organization, the essay argues that the Unitarian association provided a community open to discussing the multidimensionality of human experience, which assisted Knight in his investigation of ethics, economics, science, and liberal democracy. In the end, however, his association with the Unitarians ceased when he moved back to the University of Chicago in 1928.
AB - Frank H. Knight's antagonism to religion is well known and features prominently in his writings from the 1930s on. But during the 1920s, when he was a professor at the University of Iowa and wrote some of his most important essays on the limitations of economics, Knight was an active participant in the Iowa City Unitarian Church. Drawing on research about his association with the Unitarian Church, and his unpublished writings from the period on religion, economics, and social organization, the essay argues that the Unitarian association provided a community open to discussing the multidimensionality of human experience, which assisted Knight in his investigation of ethics, economics, science, and liberal democracy. In the end, however, his association with the Unitarians ceased when he moved back to the University of Chicago in 1928.
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U2 - 10.1215/00182702-2007-072
DO - 10.1215/00182702-2007-072
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77949599256
SN - 0018-2702
VL - 40
SP - 315
EP - 337
JO - History of Political Economy
JF - History of Political Economy
IS - 5
ER -