Título: Lewis Carroll
Seção: Politics, religion, and philosophy
Background: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem The Hunting of the Snark - all examples of the genre of literary nonsense.

Conteúdo: Dodgson's family was predominantly northern English, with Irish connections, conservative and High Church Anglican. Most of Dodgson's male ancestors were army officers or Church of England clergy. His great-grandfather, also named Charles Dodgson, had risen through the ranks of the church to become the Bishop of Elphin. His paternal grandfather, another Charles, had been an army captain, killed in action in Ireland in 1803 when his two sons were hardly more than babies. The older of these sons - yet another Charles Dodgson - was Carroll's father. He went to Westminster School and then to Christ Church, Oxford. He reverted to the other family tradition and took holy orders. He was mathematically gifted and won a double first degree, which could have been the prelude to a brilliant academic career. Instead, he married his first cousin Frances Jane Lutwidge in 1827 and became a country parson.  Dodgson was born in the small parsonage at Daresbury in Cheshire near the towns of Warrington and Runcorn, the eldest boy but already the third child of the four-and-a-half-year-old marriage. Eight more children followed. When Charles was 11, his father was given the living of Croft-on-Tees in North Yorkshire, and the whole family moved to the spacious rectory. This remained their home for the next 25 years.  Charles's father was an active and highly conservative cleric of the Church of England who later became the Archdeacon of Richmond and involved himself, sometimes influentially, in t

user: What were his political views?

assistant: In broad terms, Dodgson has traditionally been regarded as politically, religiously, and personally conservative.

user: Was there something he was conservative about specifically?

assistant: "awed by lords and inclined to be snobbish towards inferiors.

user: What were his religion and views?

assistant: Dodgson's family was predominantly northern English, with Irish connections, conservative and High Church Anglican.

user: Did his views affect his work?

assistant: "his Diary is full of such modest depreciations of himself and his work,

user: What was his views on philosophy?

assistant: In 1895, he developed a philosophical regressus-argument

user: What was the argument?

assistant: deductive reasoning in his article "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles

user: Were there any other significant views that he had?

assistant: he accepted as real what was then called "thought reading".

user: How did thought reading work?

assistant: He was an early member of the Society for Psychical Research,

user: Did he belong to any other societies or groups?

assistant: Most of Dodgson's male ancestors were army officers or Church of England clergy.