Edward Caird

Edward Caird while a professor at the University of Glasgow.

Edward Caird (March 23, 1835 – November 1, 1908), philosopher, younger brother of the theologian John Caird, was born at Greenock, Scotland, and educated at the University of Glasgow and Oxford University , 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 died the following year.

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).

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.