Thomas Reid - Essays on the Active Powers of Man / / James Harris, Thomas Reid, Knud Haakonssen.
Reid's last major work, The Active Powers shows how principles of Common Sense 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 th...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid : EETHRE
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION -- NOTE ON THE TEXT -- MODE OF REFERENCE -- CRITICAL TEXT -- ESSAYS ON THE ACTIVE POWERS OF MAN -- 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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Summary: | Reid's last major work, The Active Powers shows how principles of Common Sense 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780748642939 9783110780468 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780748642939 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | James Harris, Thomas Reid, Knud Haakonssen. |