Early Life and Studies
Rush Rhees was born in the United States of America on 19 March 1905, at Rochester, New York. He was the son of Benjamin Rush Rhees, a Baptist minister, author and president of the University of Rochester. He studied philosophy at the University of Rochester, but was expelled in 1922 for insolent questions. In 1924 he moved to Britain, where he graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1928. In 1932 he became a research fellow at the University of Cambridge. There he impressed G. E. Moore who described him as his ablest student, and met Wittgenstein, who became a close friend, and continued to visit him after his move to Swansea.
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