Cambridge Apostles
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The Cambridge Apostles was an elite, secretive intellectual society at the University of Cambridge whose members included prominent philosophers, writers, and politicians such as Bertrand Russell.
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Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
intellectual society
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secret society → student society → |
| alsoKnownAs |
Cambridge Conversazione Society
→
The Apostles → |
| associatedMovement |
Bloomsbury Group
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| basedIn |
University of Cambridge
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| country |
United Kingdom
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| fieldOfWork |
aesthetics
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economics → ethics → history → literature → philosophy → politics → |
| foundedIn |
1820
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| hasActivity |
literary discussion
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philosophical discussion → political discussion → presentation of papers → weekly meetings → |
| hasCharacteristic |
elite
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intellectual → male-only (historically) → secretive → |
| hasReputation |
controversial due to secrecy
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highly influential in Cambridge intellectual life → |
| influenced |
20th-century British philosophy
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British politics → analytic philosophy → modernist literature → |
| languageOfCommunication |
English
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| locatedIn |
Cambridge
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England → United Kingdom → |
| membershipPolicy |
invitation-only
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small membership → |
| notableMember |
Alfred North Whitehead
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Bertrand Russell → E. M. Forster → G. E. Moore → G. H. Hardy → Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson → John Maynard Keynes → Leonard Woolf → Ludwig Wittgenstein → Lytton Strachey → Roger Fry → Rupert Brooke → |
| tradition |
circulation of private papers
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use of nicknames for members → |
Referenced by (11)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Bertrand Russell → Bertrand Russell → G. E. Moore → Leslie Stephen → Thoby Stephen → |
memberOf |
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Cambridge Apostles
("Cambridge Conversazione Society")
→
The Apostles → |
alsoKnownAs |
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The Apostles
("University of Cambridge student societies")
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affiliation |
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Bloomsbury Group
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associatedWith |
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Saxon Sydney-Turner
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partOf |