Edward Caird Quotes
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. The quotes below are attributed to Edward Caird, organized by topic.
Edward Caird on God
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Attributed to Edward Caird:
“Religion is the consciousness of unity with the absolute.”
Edward Caird on Politics
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Attributed to Edward Caird:
“Modern individualism must be transcended in a fuller community.”
Edward Caird on Truth
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Attributed to Edward Caird:
“Kant's philosophy completes itself in Hegel.”
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Attributed to Edward Caird:
“The synthesis of opposites is the structure of every living truth.”
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Attributed to Edward Caird:
“Philosophy is the spirit of an age made articulate.”