Edward Caird 1835 – 1908

Edward Caird was a Scottish Hegelian philosopher, long-time professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow, and from 1893 master of Balliol College, Oxford, in succession to Benjamin Jowett. His Critical Account of the Philosophy of Kant and Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant offered the most comprehensive nineteenth-century English-language reading of Kant through Hegelian eyes, while his The Evolution of Religion and The Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers interpreted religion and Greek thought as the self-development of spirit. He shaped a generation of British Idealists and was a major tutor to several future leaders of British public life.