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)