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.

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  • 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. In 1904, Philosophy as Scientia Scientarum was published in which Flint argues that philosophy is the science of sciences responsible for discerning the rational and natural relationship among the sciences. He believed that the sciences "form a whole, a system in which each of them has its appropriate place... " (p. 7).
  • Robert Flint è stato un teologo e filosofo scozzese, che ha scritto anche di sociologia. Nacque nei pressi di Dumfries e frequentò l'Università di Glasgow. Dopo pochi anni di servizio pastorale, prima ad Aberden e poi a Kilconquhar, nel 1864 divenne professore di etica ed economia politica a St. Andrews. Dal 1876 al 1903 fu professore di divinità presso l'Università di Edimburgo. Nel 1904 venne pubblicata Philosophy as Scientia Scientiarum, in cui Flint afferma che la filosofia è la scienza delle scienze, responsabile del discernimento delle relazioni razionali e naturali tra le scienze. Flint credeva che le scienze "formano un sistema unitario, in cui ognuna di esse ha un posto appropriato...".
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  • 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.
  • Robert Flint è stato un teologo e filosofo scozzese, che ha scritto anche di sociologia. Nacque nei pressi di Dumfries e frequentò l'Università di Glasgow. Dopo pochi anni di servizio pastorale, prima ad Aberden e poi a Kilconquhar, nel 1864 divenne professore di etica ed economia politica a St. Andrews. Dal 1876 al 1903 fu professore di divinità presso l'Università di Edimburgo.
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  • Robert Flint (theologian)
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