Thomas Reid - Essays on the Active Powers of Man Hardback
by Thomas Reid
Edited by Knud Haakonssen, James A. Harris
Part of the The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid series
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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.
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- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:27/07/2010
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