David Boucher, Editor

The Scottish Idealists, including Edward Caird, David George Ritchie, Andrew Seth Pringle Pattison, William Mitchell, John Watson, and the Welshman Henry Jones who found his spiritual home in Glasgow, dominated the philosophical professoriate in Britain, Australia and Canada from the late nineteenth century to the years leading up to the First World War. Its main centres were St. Andrews, Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland, Cardiff in Wales, and Oxford in England. This collection of readings, the first of its kind, displays the variety, richness and strength of the Scottish Idealist tradition. Scottish Idealism was immensely spiritual in character and recognized no hard and fast distinctions between philosophy, religion, poetry and science. It was also a formidable force in social and educational reform.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction

• Edward Caird, The Problem of Philosophy at the Present Time
• William Paton Ker, The Philosophy of Art
• Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison, Hegelianism As an Absolute System
• Henry Jones, Idealism and Epistemology
• William Mitchell, Moral Obligation
• David George Ritchie
          The Political Philosophy of Thomas Hill Green
          The Rights of Animals
  
• Richard Burden Haldane,  The Higher Nationality: A Study in Law and Ethics

David Boucher is Professorial Fellow in European Studies at Cardiff University and Director of the Collingwood and British Idealism Centre.

· ISBN 0-907845-72-X · Published July 2004 by Imprint Academic · Cloth · 201 pages · $25.90 ·

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