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JAMES HUTCHISON STIRLING (182o-1909)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 924 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES HUTCHISON See also:STIRLING (182o-1909)  , Scottish philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Glasgow on the 22nd of See also:June 1820 . He was educated at Glasgow University, where he studied medicineand See also:philosophy . For a See also:short See also:time he practised as a See also:doctor in See also:Wales, but gave up his profession in See also:order to continue his philosophical studies in See also:Germany and See also:France . From i888 to 1890 he was See also:Gifford lecturer at the university of See also:Edinburgh and published his lectures in 1890 (Philosophy and See also:Theology) . He was an LL.D. of Edinburgh University, and See also:foreign member of the Philosophical Society of See also:Berlin . He died in See also:March 1go9 . His See also:principal See also:works are: The See also:Secret of See also:Hegel (1865; new ed . 1893); See also:Sir See also:William See also:Hamilton: The Philosophy of See also:Perception; a See also:translation of See also:Schwegler's Geschichte der Philosophic (1867; 12th ed., 1893); See also:Jerrold, See also:Tennyson and See also:Macaulay, &c . (1868) ; On See also:Materialism (1868) ; As Regards See also:Protoplasm (1869; 2nd ed., 1872); Lectures on the Philosophy of See also:Law (1873); See also:Burns in See also:Drama (1878); See also:Text-See also:Book to See also:Kant (1881); Philosophy in the Poets; Darwinianism; Workmen and See also:Work (1894); What Is Thought ? Or the Problem of Philosophy; By Way of a Conclusion So Far (1900); The Categories (1903) . Of these the most important is The Secret of Hegel, which is admitted, both in See also:England and in Germany, to be among the most scholarly and valuable contributions to Hegelian See also:doctrine and to See also:modern philosophy in See also:general . In the See also:preface to the new edition he explains that he was first See also:drawn to the study of Hegel by seeing the name in a See also:review, and subsequently heard it mentioned with See also:awe and reverence by two See also:German students .

He set himself at once to grapple with the difficulties and to unfold the principles of the Hegelian See also:

dialectic, and by his efforts he introduced an entirely new spirit into See also:English philosophy . Closely connected with the Secret is the Text-Book to Kant, which comprises a translation of the Critique with notes and a See also:biography . In these two works Dr See also:Stirling endeavoured to establish an intimate connexion between Kant and Hegel, and even went so far as to maintain that Hegel's doctrine is merely the elucidation and See also:crystallization of the Kantian See also:system . " The secret of Hegel," he says in the preliminary See also:notice to his See also:great work, " may be indicated at shortest thus: Hegel made explicit the See also:concrete universal that was implicit in Kant." The See also:sixth See also:part of the Secret contains valuable criticisms on the Hegelian writings of Schwegler, See also:Rosenkranz and See also:Haym, and explains by contrast much that has been definitely stated in the preceding pages . Of Dr Stirling's other works the most important is the See also:volume of Gifford Lectures, in which he See also:developed a theory of natural theology in relation to philosophy as a whole . As Regards Protoplasm contains an attempted refutation of the See also:Essay on the See also:Physical Basis of See also:Life by See also:Huxley .

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