Wilbur Marshall Urban

Hocking, and Wilbur M. Urban represented an idealist tradition in interpreting religion, stressing the concepts of purpose, value, and meaning as essential for understanding the nature of God. Naturalist philosophers, of whom John Dewey was typical, have focused on the “religious” as a quality of experience and…

…founder of applied psychology, and Wilbur Marshall Urban, whose Valuation, Its Nature and Laws (1909) was the first treatise on this topic in English, introduced the movement to the United States. Ralph Barton Perry’s book General Theory of Value (1926) has been called the magnum opus of the new approach.…

…such philosophies as those of Wilbur M. Urban and others who developed idealistic theories of value and valuation. Ethical idealism deals with moral values, rights, and obligations. Several of the above-mentioned philosophers, such as Fichte and Green, as well as the Plato scholar A.E. Taylor, the theistic pluralist Hastings Rashdall,…