Thomas Reid on Practical Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Reid on Practical Ethics write by Thomas Reid. This book was released on 2007-07-06. Thomas Reid on Practical Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The pervasiveness of Protestant natural law in the early modern period and its significance in the Scottish Enlightenment have long been recognised. This book reveals that Thomas Reid (1710-1796) - the great contemporary of David Hume and Adam Smith - also worked in this tradition. When Reid succeeded Adam Smith as professor of moral philosophy in Glasgow in 1764, he taught a course covering pneumatology, practical ethics, and politics. This section on practical ethics took its starting point from the system of natural law and rights published by Francis Hutcheson. Knud Haakonssen has reconstructed it here for the first time from Reid's manuscript lectures and papers, and it provides a considerable addition to our understanding not only of Reid but of the thought of the Scottish Enlightenment and of the education system of the time. The present work is a revised version of a work first published by Princeton University Press in 1990 which has long been out of print.
Thomas Reid on the Ethical Life
Thomas Reid on the Ethical Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Reid on the Ethical Life write by Terence Cuneo. This book was released on 2020-09-24. Thomas Reid on the Ethical Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Element presents the rudiments of Thomas Reid's agency-centered ethical theory. According to this theory, an ethical theory must address three primary questions. What is it to be an agent? What is ethical reality like, such that agents could know it? And how can agents respond to ethical reality, commit themselves to being regulated by it, and act well in doing so? Reid's answers to these questions are wide-ranging, borrowing from the rational intuitionist, sentimentalist, Aristotelian, and Protestant natural law traditions. This Element explores how Reid blends together these influences, how he might respond to concerns raised by rival traditions, and specifies what distinguishes his approach from those of other modern philosophers.
Thomas Reid on Freedom and Morality
Thomas Reid on Freedom and Morality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Reid on Freedom and Morality write by William L. Rowe. This book was released on 2018-10-18. Thomas Reid on Freedom and Morality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this succinct and well-written book, one of our most eminent philosophers provides a fresh reading of the view of freedom and morality developed by Thomas Reid (1710-1796). Although contemporary theorists have written extensively about the Scottish philosopher's contributions to the theory of knowledge, this is the first book-length study of his contributions to the controversy over freedom and necessity. William L. Rowe argues that Reid developed a subtle, systematic theory of moral freedom based on the idea of the human being as a free and morally responsible agent. He carefully reconstructs the theory and explores the intellectual background to Reid's views in the work of John Locke, Samuel Clarke, and Anthony Collins. Rowe develops a novel account of Reid's conception of free action and relates it to contemporary arguments that moral responsibility for an action implies the power to have done otherwise. Distilling from Reid's work a viable version of the agency theory of freedom and responsibility, he suggests how Reid's theory can be defended against the major objections—both historical and contemporary—that have been advanced against it. Blending to good effect historical and philosophical analysis, Thomas Reid on Freedom and Morality should interest philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians.
Thomas Reid: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Anatomy of the Self
Thomas Reid: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Anatomy of the Self - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Reid: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Anatomy of the Self write by R.D. Gallie. This book was released on 2013-11-11. Thomas Reid: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Anatomy of the Self available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. I: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF REID Thomas Reid (1710-96) was born at Strachan in Kincardineshire, Scotland, not far from Aberdeen. Reid was fortunate in his family connections. For instance his mother's brother was David Gregory, Savilian professor of Astronomy at Oxford and close friend of Sir Isaac Newton. Reid entered Marischal College, Aberdeen, at the age of twelve after the usual spell in Aberdeen Grammar School. After a short period as college librarian he married his cousin Margaret Gregory, having gained the position of (Presbyterian) minister at New Machar, in the gift of King's College, Aberdeen, which he held from 1737 till 1752. Although Reid published only one paper, An Essay on Quantity, in this period he was far from intellectually idle; for one thing he familiarised himself with the works of Bishop Butler, especially The Analogy of Religion, which, together with those of Samuel Clarke and Isaac Newton, were to have a profound influence on his mature philosophy. In 1752 Reid was appointed a regent at King's College, Aberdeen. During his regency he not only founded a crucially important discussion group, 'The Wise Club', and familiarised himself with David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature both through his own reading and by exhaustive discussion of it within the group; he also wrote extensively. He composed and delivered his seminal Latin Philosophical Orations.
Reid on Ethics
Reid on Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reid on Ethics write by S. Roeser. This book was released on 2009-11-30. Reid on Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first edited collection to bring together classic pieces and new work by leading scholars of Thomas Reid. The contributors explore key elements of Reid's ideas about moral epistemology, moral emotions, moral agency and practical ethics.
