Robert Flint

Robert Flint (14 March 1838 – 25 November 1910) was a Scottish theologian and philosopher who also wrote on sociology. Born in Dumfriesshire, he studied at the University of Glasgow. Flint was licensed to preach by the Church of Scotland in 1858. He served as minister in Aberdeen and Fife before being elected to the moral philosophy chair at the University of St Andrews in 1864. In 1876, he succeeded to the divinity chair at the University of Edinburgh, receiving honorary doctorates from both Glasgow and Edinburgh. Flint delivered several significant lecture series, including the Baird lectures, Stone lectures at Princeton, and Croall lectures. He was elected a corresponding member of the Institute of France and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1903, he resigned his professorship to focus on writing, though failing health limited his literary work. Flint died in Edinburgh in 1910 and is buried in Liberton Cemetery. His published works include "Christ's Kingdom upon Earth", "The Philosophy of History in Europe", "Theism", "Anti-Theistic Theories", "Vico", "Historical Philosophy in France and French Belgium and Switzerland", "Socialism", "Agnosticism", and "Philosophy as scientia scientarum and a history of classifications of the sciences".