D. D. Raphael

David Daiches Raphael (25 January 1916 – 22 December 2015) was a British philosopher.

Academic career He taught at the University of Otago, Dunedin, in New Zealand from 1946 to 1949, before returning to the United Kingdom as a lecturer in moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow and rising to become Edward Caird Professor of Political and Social Philosophy between 1960 and 1970. After a period as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading (1970–1973), he was Professor of Philosophy at Imperial College, University of London from 1973 until he retired in 1983.

He is known for his writings on Adam Smith, Thomas Hobbes, justice, the rights of man, and his 1981, introductory philosophical book; Moral Philosophy.

Selected works