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Thomas Reid on Practical Ethics By Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid on Practical Ethics by Thomas Reid


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This collection reconstructs Thomas Reid's philosophy of practical ethics from his lecture manuscripts and papers dating from his tenure as professor of moral philosophy in Glasgow from 1764.

Thomas Reid on Practical Ethics Summary

Thomas Reid on Practical Ethics by Thomas Reid

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.

About Thomas Reid

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.

Table of Contents

Contents; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; BY KNUD HAAKONSSEN; 1. REID'S REPUTATION; 2. THE DEVELOPMENT OF REID'S MORAL THOUGHT; 3. THE COHERENCE OF REID'S MORAL THOUGHT; 4. REID'S MANUSCRIPTS AND THE EDITOR'S COMMENTARY; 5. INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS; 6. DIAGRAMS OF REID'S SYSTEM; Thomas Reid; Lectures and Papers on; Practical Ethics; I. INTRODUCTORY LECTURE; II. DUTIES TO GOD; III. DUTIES TO OURSELVES: PRUDENCE, TEMPERANCE, FORTITUDE; IV. DUTIES TO OTHERS: JUSTICE; V. DUTIES TO OTHERS: INDIVIDUALS IN PRIVATE JURISPRUDENCE; VI. DUTIES TO OTHERS: INDIVIDUALS IN OECONOMICAL; JURISPRUDENCE; VII. DUTIES TO OTHERS: INDIVIDUALS IN POLITICAL JURISPRUDENCE; VIII. DUTIES TO OTHERS: STATES; IX. SUPPLEMENT TO DUTIES TO OURSELVES; X. NATURAL LAW AND NATURAL RIGHTS; XI. PROPERTY; XII. SUCCESSION; XIII. ON DISSOLUTION OF OBLIGATIONS AND ON INTERPRETATION; XIV. OECONOMICAL JURISPRUDENCE; XV. SOCIAL CONTRACT AS IMPLIED CONTRACT; XVI. POLITICAL JURISPRUDENCE; XVII. RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF STATES; Commentary; BY KNUD HAAKONSSEN; TEXTUAL NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

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NPB9780748617098
9780748617098
0748617094
Thomas Reid on Practical Ethics by Thomas Reid
New
Hardback
Edinburgh University Press
2007-07-06
480
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