Edward Caird

Caird, Edward (1835–1908). Philosopher, younger brother of John C. (q.v.), was born at Greenock, and ed. at Glasgow and Oxford, where he became Fellow and Tutor of Merton College In 1866 he was appointed to the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, which he held until 1893, when he became Master of Balliol College, from which he retired in 1907. He has written Critical Philosophy of Kant (1877), Hegel (1883), Evolution of Religion, Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte (1885), Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers (1904).

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