Edgar Frederick Carritt, FBA (27 February 1876 – 19 June 1964) was an English philosopher who wrote on aesthetics, moral philosophy and political philosophy.
Born in London, he was the son of Frederick Blasson Carritt, a solicitor, and Edith, née Price.
[1] Graduating with a first in 1898, he was almost immediately elected to a classical fellowship at University College, Oxford;[2] within a few months, he was also appointed as the college's tutor in philosophy, succeeding Vernon Storr,[3] who left the fellowship in 1899.
[4] In 1901, Carritt won the Chancellor's Essay Prize and the following year started to lecture on aesthetics; his lectures are thought to have been among the first on that topic delivered at the university.
(1932) and Morals and Politics (1935), Ethical and Political Thinking (1947), Introduction to Aesthetics (1949), My Philosophy: Selected Essays of B. Croce (1949) and A Calendar of British Taste, 1600–1800 (1949).