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PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT. 



56. 



T. H. Green 

 and Ed. 

 Caird. 



of the day in this country that the philosophy of Kant 

 as well as that of Hegel deserved to be appreciatively 

 studied, and that no progress could be expected in 

 philosophical speculation without understanding, assimi- 

 lating or disposing of, the position taken up by these 

 two thinkers who formed the beginning and the con- 

 summation of a special line of criticism and construction. 

 Little attention was given to the intermediary stages of 

 thought represented by Fichte and Schelling, nor did 

 Schopenhauer's writings attract any attention in this 

 country before they had produced abroad that elaborate 

 literature of pessimism which was a prominent but per- 

 haps not the most important outcome of his philosophy. 

 The thinkers to whom we are most indebted for an 

 independent and stimulating account of Kant and Hegel 

 are Thomas Hill Green, who published his Introduction 

 to Hume's 'Treatise of Human Nature' in 1874, and 

 Edward Caird, who brought out his first work on Kant 

 in 1877 (it was followed by a larger work in two 

 volumes in 1889). To followers of Green we are also 

 indebted for translations and expositions of most of 

 the principal works of Hegel. 1 It is characteristic of 

 Green that his principal work, posthumously published 

 in 1883, the 'Prolegomena to Ethics,' betrays again 



1 In 1874 there appeared the 

 ' Logic ' of Hegel, translated by 

 William Wallace ; a new edition in 

 two volumes included ' Prolegomena 

 to the Study of Hegel' (1892-94). 

 From 1886 dates ' Introduction to 

 Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Art," by 

 Bernard Bosanquet. The ' History 

 of Philosophy ' was translated by 

 Miss E. S. Haldane in 1892. Other 



works are : Hegel's ' Philosophy of 

 Mind,' with introductory Essays by 

 Wallace (1894) ; Hegel's Lectures 

 on ' Philosophy of Religion,' trans- 

 lated by Spiers and Sanderson (3 

 vols., 1895) ; Hegel's ' Philosophy of 

 Right,' translated by Dyde (1896) ; 

 lastly, the ' Phenomenology of 

 Mind,' translated by Baillie (2 

 vols., 1910). 



