Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison 1856 – 1931

Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison was a Scottish philosopher and one of the leading critics of absolute idealism within British Idealism itself. After studies at Edinburgh and in Germany, he held chairs at Cardiff, St Andrews, and Edinburgh, where he was for many decades professor of logic and metaphysics. His Hegelianism and Personality of 1887 launched a sharp critique of the absolute idealism of the Cairds and F. H. Bradley on the grounds that any absolute that absorbs persons into itself thereby loses what it most needs to retain, while his Idea of God in the Light of Recent Philosophy and his Gifford Lectures developed a personalist theism.