The Essays on the Active Powers of Man (1788) was Thomas Reid's last major work. It was conceived as part of one large work, intended as a final synoptic statement of his philosophy. The first and larger part was published three years earlier as Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (edited as vol. 3 of the Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid). These two works are united by Reid's basic philosophy of common sense, which sets out native principles by which the mind operates in both its intellectual and active aspects. The Active Powers shows how these principles are involved in volition, action, and the ability to judge morally. Reid gives an original twist to a libertarian and realist tradition that was prominently represented in eighteenth-century British thought by such thinkers as Samuel Clarke and Richard Price.
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Shows how principles of Common Sense philosophy are involved in volition, action and the ability to judge morally, giving an original twist to a libertarian and realist tradition that was prominently represented in eighteenth-century British thought .
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Preface; Editors' Introduction; Note on the text; Mode of reference; Thomas Reid: Essays on the Active Powers of Man: Contents: Introduction; Essay I Of Active Power in General; Essay II Of the Will; Essay III Of the Principles of Action; Essay IV Of the Liberty of Moral Agents; Essay V Of Morals; Bibliography; Index of Names; General Index.
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This, the seventh volume in the Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid, is a long awaited and very welcome addition ! The extensive manuscript material (preserved in the Library of Aberdeen University and now available on line) has proved to be of special value in enabling the editors (and thus readers) to identify the philosophers with whom Reid saw himself to be engaged ! Taken together, the text and footnotes will make this the definitive edition of the Active Powers for many years to come. Journal of Scottish Philosophy This, the seventh volume in the Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid, is a long awaited and very welcome addition ! The extensive manuscript material (preserved in the Library of Aberdeen University and now available on line) has proved to be of special value in enabling the editors (and thus readers) to identify the philosophers with whom Reid saw himself to be engaged ! Taken together, the text and footnotes will make this the definitive edition of the Active Powers for many years to come.
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ISBN
9780748617081
Publisert
2010-07-27
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Edinburgh University Press
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818 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
416

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Biographical note

Knud Haakonssen was Professor of History at the University of Sussex and is now a member of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala. His books include The Science of a Legislator (Cambridge University Press, 1981), Natural Law and Moral Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and editions of Hume, Hutcheson, Reid and Smith. He is General Editor of the Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid. James A. Harris Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews.