Edward Caird

Edward Caird FRSE FBA (/kɛərd/; 23 March 1835 – 1 November 1908) was a Scottish philosopher. 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 Greenock in Renfrewshire, and educated at Greenock Academy, the University of Glasgow, and Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1863). He was a Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Oxford from 1864 to 1866.

In 1866, he was appointed to the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, which he held until 1893. In that year he became Master of Balliol College, 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 Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1900.

In May 1902 he was at Carnavon to receive the honorary degree D.Litt. (Doctor of Letters) from the University of Wales during the ceremony to install the Prince of Wales (later King George V) as Chancellor of that university.

He was a founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage, alongside his wife, Caroline.

The philosopher John Watson was among his pupils at the University of Glasgow.

He died in Oxford on 1 November 1908 and was buried there in St Sepulchres Cemetery.

Caird was a Hegelian idealist and was an important contributor to the British idealist movement.

Family

He married Caroline Frances Wylie in 1867. They had no children.

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
• , Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co.; Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1883
• , 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) second edition 1909
• Essays on Literature and Philosophy, Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1892 (2 volumes)
• The Evolution of Religion, Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1893; New York: Macmillan, 1893 (Gifford Lectures 1890–92; , )
• The Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers, Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1904 (Gifford Lectures, 1900–02; , )
• (1907)

Pamphlets

• , 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
• (1897)
• , London: Henry Frowde, 1903

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

• at the Internet Archive
• , by Sir Henry Jones and John Henry Muirhead (1921), on the Internet Archive
• biographical notes and Lectures online at the Gifford Lectures website
• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Caird, Edward". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
• Cousin, John William (1910), "Caird, Edward", A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource