Noah Porter

Noah Thomas Porter III (December 14, 1811 – March 4, 1892)[1] was an American Congregational minister, academic, philosopher, author, lexicographer and an outspoken anti-slavery activist.On April 13, 1836, in New Haven, he married Mary Taylor, daughter of Nathaniel Taylor[1] (who presided over the creation of the Yale Divinity School and created what came to be known as "New Haven theology") and his wife Rebecca Marie Hine.[6] Influenced by the German refugee writer and philosopher Francis Lieber, Porter opposed slavery and integrated an antislavery position with religious liberalism.His best-known work is The Human Intellect, with an Introduction upon Psychology and the Human Soul (1868), comprehending a general history of philosophy, and following in part the "common-sense" philosophy of the Scottish school, while accepting the Kantian doctrine of intuition, and declaring the notion of design to be a priori.He died on March 4, 1892, in New Haven,[1] and was buried in the Grove Street Cemetery there.
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