爱德华·亚历山大·韦斯特马克(E.A.Westermarck)(1862-1939),芬兰著名的社会学家、人类学家和哲学家,生于赫尔辛基,卒于拉宾拉赫堤。他毕业于芬兰大学,1890年获得哲学博士学位。韦斯特马克的学术研究属于英语国家的自然主义和经验主义传统,他生平历任芬兰大学社会学讲师、道德哲学教授和亚波学院哲学教授,并于1907 E.A. Westermarck (1862-1939), a famous Finnish sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher, was born in Helsinki and died at Rabin Lahti. He graduated from the University of Finland and received a PhD degree in 1890. Westmark’s academic research belongs to the naturalist and empiricist tradition of the English-speaking countries. He has been a sociology lecturer, a professor of moral philosophy and a professor of philosophy at the University of Finland in his life. In 1907,