Philosophy of Religion

Product Description Philosophy of Religion starts with the presupposition that religion and religious ideas can be taken out of the domain of feeling or practical experience and made objects of scientific reflection. It implies that, whilst religion and philosophy have the same objects, the attitude of the human spirit towards these objects is in each case, different. In the one they are present to it in an immediate way as objects of devotion or spiritual enjoyment; they come before it at most only in the form of outward fact or of figurative representation. In the other, they become the objects of reflection or intellectual apprehension, and are finally elevated to the form of pure or speculative thought. Feeling, indeed, in all cases, involves a kind of knowledge; the objects of emotion, whether moral or aesthetic or religious must be grasped by the subject, of them with an implicit intelligence, apart from which, its relation to them would be no deeper than that of blind instinctor animal impulse. About the Author John Caird FRSE (15 December 1820 – 30 July 1898) was a theologian. He entered the Church of Scotland, of which he became one of the most eloquent preachers. He served as the Principal of Glasgow University from 1873 until 1898. He was born in Greenock the son of John Caird of Caird and Co and Janet Young. His younger brother was Edward Caird. He was educated at Greenock Grammar School, and then attended Glasgow University (MA 1845). Caird delivered the 1892-1896 Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow, entitled The Fundamental Ideas of Christianity. In 1897 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He died in Greenock and is buried in Greenock Cemetery.