Edward Caird was a central figure in the development of British idealism and in the propagation of the study of Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in Great Britain and the United States. His books on Kant were central texts in their field for decades and are still influential today, and he wrote one of the best short introductions in English to the philosophy of Hegel. He also made significant contributions to the philosophy of religion. Together with Benjamin Jowett and T. H. Green, he played a decisive role in breaking the hold, at least temporarily, of empiricism and associationism over the Universities of Oxford and Glasgow. "To this radical change and reorientation," Rudolf Metz observes in A Hundred Years of British Philosophy (1938), "there is no parallel in the entire history of British thought." Moreover, Caird, Green, and Jowett, along with Bernard Bosanquet and David Ritchie, helped...