Edward Caird (; 23 March 1835 – 1 November 1908) was a Scottish

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

. He was a holder of LLD, DCL, and DLitt.

Life

The younger brother of the theologian John Caird, he was the son of engineer John Caird, the proprietor of Caird & Company, born at

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, and educated at Greenock Academy and the Universities of

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and

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(B.A. 1863). He was a Fellow and Tutor of

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from 1864 to 1866. In 1866, he was appointed to the Chair of Moral Philosophy at

, which he held until 1893. In that year he became Master of

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, from which he retired in 1907. In 1894 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Merton College. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the

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in 1900. In May 1902 he was at Carnavon to receive the honorary degree D.Litt. (Doctor of Letters) from the

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during the ceremony to install the Prince of Wales (later King

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) as Chancellor of that university. He was a founder member of the

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, alongside his wife, Caroline. The philosopher John Watson was among his pupils at the University of Glasgow. He died in

on 1 November 1908 and was buried there in St Sepulchres Cemetery. Caird was a

Hegelian Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a 19th-century German idealist. His influence extends across a wide range of topics from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political philosophy and the ...

idealist and was an important contributor to the British idealist movement.

Family

He married Caroline Frances Wylie in 1867. They had no children.Anon., ''Who was Who: A Companion to "Who's Who"'' (London:

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, 1967), p. 111.

Works

Books

* ''The Collected Works of Edward Caird'', 12 volumes, ed. Colin Tyler, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1999 * ''A Critical Account of the Philosophy of Kant, with an Historical Introduction'', Glasgow: J. Maclehose, 1877
''Hegel''
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co.; Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1883
''The Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte''
Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1885; New York: Macmillan, 1885 * ''The Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant'', Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1889; New York: Macmillan, 1889 (2 volumes
''Volume 1''''Volume 2''
second edition 1909 * ''Essays on Literature and Philosophy'', Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1892 (2 volumes
''Volume 1''''Volume 2''
* ''The Evolution of Religion'', Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1893; New York: Macmillan, 1893 ( Gifford Lectures 1890–92
III
* ''The Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers'', Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1904 ( Gifford Lectures, 1900–02
III

''Lay sermons and addresses, delivered in the Hall of Balliol College, Oxford''
(1907)

Pamphlets

''The Problem of Philosophy at the Present Time: an Introductory Address Delivered to the Philosophical Society of the University of Edinburgh''
Glasgow, James Maclehose & Sons, 1881 * ''The Moral Aspect of the Economical Problem: Presidential Address to the Ethical Society'', London, Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1888 * ''Address on Plato's Republic as the Earliest Educational Treatise'', Bangor: Jarvis & Foster, 1894
''Individualism and Socialism, Being the Inaugural Address to the Civic Society of Glasgow''
(1897)
''Idealism and the Theory of Knowledge''
London: Henry Frowde, 1903

References

Citations

Sources

* Jones, H., & Muirhead, J. H., ''The Life and Philosophy of Edward Caird'', Glasgow: MacLehose, Jackson & Co., 1921. * Tyler, C., ''Edward Caird'', in ''Dictionary of Liberal Thought''; Brack & Randall (eds.), Politico's 2007, pp. 54–56.

External links

*
The life and philosophy of Edward Caird
by Sir Henry Jones and John Henry Muirhead (1921), on the

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''Edward Caird''
biographical notes and Lectures online at the Gifford Lectures website
Edward Caird's grave in St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Oxford, with biography
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