Edward Caird Quotes on Knowledge
Edward Caird (1835–1908) was the leading British Hegelian of the late nineteenth century and the principal Anglophone interpreter of Kant's Critical philosophy. The Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1889) reads the three Critiques as a developing dialectic that the Hegelian system completes, treating knowledge not as the static correspondence of mind to its object but as the historical movement by which consciousness progressively articulates the unity of subject and object. The Evolution of Religion (1893) extends the framework to comparative religion as the developmental self-knowledge of spirit.
Quotes
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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.”
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“When one learns something one first performs an act of will, because only by willing to learn can one learn.”
Vico: Autodidact and Humanist," The Centennial Review , Vol. 11, No. 3 (Summer 1967), p. 340 -
“The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual ... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'être is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug.”
Representation of the Intellectual (1994) -
“Representation of the Intellectual (1994)”
The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual ... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'être is to represent all those people and issues that a -
“Interview with Michaël Zeeman for Leven en Werken”
I retain my faith in the humanist tradition, that it’s possible to deal with discrepant experiences truthfully without resolving into simple things like only women should write about women, only Chicanos should write about Chicanos, only Latinos should write about Latinos… I think that’s the most damaging crime, and misapprehension of what I’m saying. That’s why they debate all these things and th -
“An Interview with Edward W. Said" (New York, July–August 1999), The Edward Said Reader (2000) edited by Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew Rubin, PART IV : Spoken Words, Ch. 17”
I’ve always been interested in what gets left out. That’s why I’m interested in the figure from the “ Ode on a Grecian Urn ,” the “silent form” that “dost tease us out of thought.” That’s why I’m interested in Raymond Williams ’s discussion of the country house poems, where the representation of the country house necessarily excludes the silence of the peasants who have been driven off the land; o