James Hutchison Stirling (22 January 1820–19 March 1909), philosopher, born in Glasgow

Glasgow

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, and educated there and at Edinburgh

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, where he studied medicine, which he practised until the death of his father in 1851, after which he devoted himself to philosophy.

His The Secret of Hegel

The Secret of Hegel

The Secret of Hegel: Being the Hegelian System in Origin Principle, Form and Matter is a philosophy book by James Hutchison Stirling.The book has influenced many British philosophers and helped to create the movement known as British idealism....

(1865) gave great impetus to the study and understanding of the Hegelian philosophy both in Britain

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 and in the United States

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, and was also accepted as a work of authority in Germany

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 and Italy

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.

Frederick Copleston

Frederick Copleston

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 (A History of Philosophy vol. VII, p.12) wrote "...we may be inclined to smile at J. H. Stirling's picture of Hegel as the great champion of Christianity."

Selected publications

• Sir William Hamilton (1865)
• The Secret of Hegel
  The Secret of Hegel
  The Secret of Hegel: Being the Hegelian System in Origin Principle, Form and Matter is a philosophy book by James Hutchison Stirling.The book has influenced many British philosophers and helped to create the movement known as British idealism....
  
  (1865)
• Text-book to Kant (1881)
• Philosophy and Theology (1890) (Gifford Lectures
  Gifford Lectures
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  )
• Darwinianism: workmen and work (1894)
• What is Thought? or the Problem of Philosophy (1900)
• The Categories (1903).

More concerned with literature:

• Jerrold, Tennyson, and Macaulay (1868)
• Burns in Drama (1878)
• Philosophy in the Poets (1885).

External links

• James Hutchison, 1820-1909, on the Internet Archive
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  , where the above works are available in multiple formats
• James Hutchison Stirling : his life and work, by Amelia Hutchison Stirling (1912)