Robert Flint

Robert Flint (1838 – 1910) was a Scottish theologian and philosopher, who wrote also on sociology.

He was born near Dumfries and educated, at the University of Glasgow. After a few years of pastoral service, first in Aberdeen and then at Kilconquhar, Fife, he was appointed professor of moral philosophy and political economy at St. Andrews in 1864.

From 1876 to 1903 he was professor of divinity at the University of Edinburgh.

Works

• Christ's Kingdom upon Earth (1865) sermons
• Philosophy of History in Europe (1874)
• Theism (1877) Baird Lectures 1876/7
• Anti-Theistic Theories (1879) Baird Lectures 1876/7
• Vico (1884)
• Historical Philosophy in France (1894)
• Socialism (1894)
• Sermons and Addresses (1899)
• Agnosticism (1903)
• Philosophy as scientia scientarum (1904)

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.