Thomas Reid - Essays on the Active Powers of Man
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Common Sense
Enlightenment
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Scottish Enlightenment
Scottish Philosophy
Thomas Reid
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- ISBN 9780748617081
- Weight: 818g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jul 2010
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Knud Haakonssen is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews and a Long-term Fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt. 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.
