ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author talks about the religious implications of literary and philosophical texts of John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart. He was born in 1866. A slightly younger contemporary of Josiah Royce, he was one of the leading British exponents of Idealism. As a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, he had considerable influence around the turn of the century, and Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore were under his spell for a short while. Both rebelled against Idealism, and soon after McTaggart's death, in 1925, British philosophy owed far more to this rebellion than it did to McTaggart. Another very distinguished Cambridge philosopher, C. D. Broad, devoted two imposing critical tomes to An Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy. McTaggart's own books include three works on Hegel: Studies in the Hegelian Dialectic, Studies in Hegelian Cosmology, and A Commentary on Hegel's Logic. His metaphysics is set forth in The Nature of Existence.
