id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3188 William Frankena - Wikipedia .html text/html 2226 258 60 William Klaas Frankena (June 21, 1908 – October 22, 1994) was an American moral philosopher. A memorial essay by a member of the Michigan Philosophy Department states that "William Frankena contributed as widely to moral philosophy and its neighboring areas as anyone in that remarkable group that dominated English-speaking ethics from the end of World War II well into the 1980s. From metaethics, the history of ethics, and normative ethical theory, to moral education, moral psychology, and applied ethics, to religious ethics and the philosophy of education, the sweep and quality of his ethical philosophizing was simply extraordinary."[1] When Frankena retired and was awarded emeritus status in 1978, the University Regents stated that "he is renowned for his learning in the history of ethics, a subject about which he is generally believed in the profession to know more than anyone else in the world."[1] The July 1981 issue of The Monist is devoted to "The Philosophy of William Frankena."[3] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3188.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3188.txt