Thomas Reid Ethics Aesthetics And The Anatomy Of The Self

Author : R.D. Gallie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 213 pages
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Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401590204

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Thomas Reid: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Anatomy of the Self by R.D. Gallie Pdf

I: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF REID Thomas Reid (1710-96) was born at Strachan in Kincardineshire, Scotland, not far from Aberdeen. Reid was fortunate in his family connections. For instance his mother's brother was David Gregory, Savilian professor of Astronomy at Oxford and close friend of Sir Isaac Newton. Reid entered Marischal College, Aberdeen, at the age of twelve after the usual spell in Aberdeen Grammar School. After a short period as college librarian he married his cousin Margaret Gregory, having gained the position of (Presbyterian) minister at New Machar, in the gift of King's College, Aberdeen, which he held from 1737 till 1752. Although Reid published only one paper, An Essay on Quantity, in this period he was far from intellectually idle; for one thing he familiarised himself with the works of Bishop Butler, especially The Analogy of Religion, which, together with those of Samuel Clarke and Isaac Newton, were to have a profound influence on his mature philosophy. In 1752 Reid was appointed a regent at King's College, Aberdeen. During his regency he not only founded a crucially important discussion group, 'The Wise Club', and familiarised himself with David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature both through his own reading and by exhaustive discussion of it within the group; he also wrote extensively. He composed and delivered his seminal Latin Philosophical Orations.

Author : William C. Davis
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847144430

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Thomas Reid's Ethics by William C. Davis Pdf

Thomas Reid (1710-96) was one of the most daring and original thinkers of the eighteenth century. His work became the cornerstone of the Scottish School of Common Sense Philosophy, and was highly influential in nineteenth-century America; it also anticipated the thinking of such twentieth-century figures as Moore and Wittgenstein. Now, after a long period of neglect, his philosophy is again the subject of increasing attention across the world. For Reid, knowing about ethics is a matter of having 'good evidence' supplied by a sense-like moral faculty. William Davis's book shows how such a view can be both consistent and plausible in the twenty-first century. Thomas Reid's Ethics begins by characterizing the state of moral epistemology at the time when Reid was writing. It goes on to recount Reid's central claims about the moral sense, and describes the various problems that confront those who would explain and defend his views. Davis lays the foundation for resolving these difficulties by detailing an epistemological conception of evidence which parallels the legal conception of evidence used by the Scottish courts of Reid's day. He then shows how Reid's claims about evidence and self-evidence are best understood in light of this legal model. The book concludes by responding to recent worries about 'moral sense' theories, and offers a final assessment of the success of Reid's ethical project. The book will be of substantial interest not only to Reid scholars and historians of philosophy, but also to specialists and students in contemporary ethics.

Author : James Foster
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 238 pages
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Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781474455367

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Thomas Reid and the Defence of Duty by James Foster Pdf

Is morality a subjective matter, dependent on our desires and interests, or are there objective moral truths? And if the latter, can we explain the objectivity of morality without appeal to metaphysics, a robust teleology, or divine command? This book argues that we find just such an account of moral objectivity in Thomas Reid's defence of duty. To make this case, this book provides an explanation of Reid's way of philosophy and his reasons for rejecting moral subjectivism; presents Reid's account of the concept, perception, and motivational force of duty; and responds to contemporary challenges of moral subjectivism and moral pessimism from the perspective of his moral philosophy. Further, this book argues that if Reid is correct, then there is an urgent need to reform current pedagogical practice and return to the teaching of practical ethics.

Author : Rebecca Copenhaver,Todd Buras
Publisher : Mind Association Occasional
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198733676

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Thomas Reid on Mind, Knowledge, and Value by Rebecca Copenhaver,Todd Buras Pdf

The essays in this volume tell part of the story about Reid's significance in his time and ours. They represent three broad themes in his philosophy: mind, knowledge, and value. The essays present Reid's philosophy of developing agents in a rich world of objects and values - agents with intellectual and active powers whose regularity is productive. Though such agents are equipped at first with rudimentary abilities, those abilities are responsive. Our powers consist in a fundamental and ongoing engagement with a world that calls on us to be flexible, sensitive, astute, and, ultimately, practical.

Author : Giovanni B. Grandi
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845404536

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Thomas Reid by Giovanni B. Grandi Pdf

Thomas Reid (1710-1796) is the foremost exponent of the Scottish 'common sense' school of philosophy. Educated at Marischal College in Aberdeen, Reid subsequently taught at King's College, and was a founder of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society. His Inquiry Into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense was published in 1764, the same year he succeeded Adam Smith as Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He resigned from active teaching duties in 1785 to devote himself to writing, and published two more books - Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785) and Essays on the Active Powers of Man (1788). Within a short time of publication, Reid's works were translated into French and German, and greatly influenced debates in philosophy and psychology in Europe. His influence in the emerging colleges and universities of post-revolutionary America was even greater. Reid was widely regarded as David Hume's most sophisticated contemporary critic. His critique of the 'theory of ideas' that lay behind both Hume's scepticism and Berkeley's immaterialism, his critique of Locke's theory of personal identity, and his defence of 'moral liberty' against determinism are all of enduring interest and significance. The aim of this comprehensive selection of his writings is to make the key elements of Reid's philosophical work available to a new generation of readers. Two other philosophers of the 'common sense' school are featured in the Library of Scottish Philosophy - James Beattie and Dugald Stewart.

Author : Terence Cuneo,René van Woudenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521012082

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The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid by Terence Cuneo,René van Woudenberg Pdf

Reid in context / Alexander Broadie -- Thomas Reid and the culture of science / Paul Wood -- Reid on common sense / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- Reid's theory of perception / James Van Cleve / Reid's reply to the skeptic / John Greco -- Nativism and the nature of thought in Reid's account of the external world / Lorne Falkenstein -- Reid and the social operations of mind / C.A.J. Coady -- Reid on memory and the identity of persons / René Van Woudenberg -- Thomas Reid's theory of freedom and responsibility / William L. Rowe -- Reid's moral philosophy / Terence Cueno -- Reid's philosophy of art / Peter Kivy -- Reid's philosophy of religion / Dale Tuggy -- Reid's influence in Britain, Germany, France, and America / Benjamin W. Redekop

Author : S. Roeser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230246829

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Reid on Ethics by S. Roeser Pdf

This is the first edited collection to bring together classic pieces and new work by leading scholars of Thomas Reid. The contributors explore key elements of Reid's ideas about moral epistemology, moral emotions, moral agency and practical ethics.

Author : Neil A. Manson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134574605

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God and Design by Neil A. Manson Pdf

Recent discoveries in physics, cosmology, and biochemistry have captured the public imagination and made the Design Argument - the theory that God created the world according to a specific plan - the object of renewed scientific and philosophical interest. This accessible but serious introduction to the design problem brings together new perspectives from prominent scientists and philosophers including Paul Davies, Richard Swinburne, Sir Martin Rees, Michael Behe, Elliot Sober and Peter van Inwagen. It probes the relationship between modern science and religious belief, considering their points of conflict and their many points of similarity. Is the real God of creationism the 'master clockmaker' who sets the world's mechanism on a perfectly enduring course, or a miraculous presence who continually intervenes in and alters the world we know? Are science and faith, or evolution and creation, really in conflict at all? Expanding the parameters of a lively and urgent debate, God and Design considers how perennial questions of origin continue to fascinate and disturb us.

Author : Roger Crisp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192576941

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Sacrifice Regained by Roger Crisp Pdf

Does being virtuous make you happy? In this book, Roger Crisp examines the answers to this ancient question provided by the so-called 'British Moralists', from Thomas Hobbes, around 1650, for the next two hundred years, until Jeremy Bentham. This involves elucidating their views on happiness (self-interest, or well-being) and on virtue (or morality), in order to bring out the relation of each to the other. Themes ran through many of these writers: psychological egoism, evaluative hedonism, and - after Hobbes - the acceptance of self-standing moral reasons. But there are exceptions, and even those taking the standard views adopt them for very different reasons and express them in various ways. As the ancients tended to believe that virtue and happiness largely coincide, so these modern authors are inclined to accept posthumous reward and punishment. Both positions sit uneasily with the common-sense idea that a person can truly sacrifice their own good for the sake of morality or for others. Roger Crisp shows that David Hume - a hedonist whose ethics made no appeal to the afterlife - was the first major British moralist to allow for, indeed to recommend, such self-sacrifice. Morality and well-being of course remain central to modern ethics, and Crisp demonstrates how much there is to learn from this remarkable group of philosophers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110581779

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Comptes Rendus Philosophiques by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lauren F. Pfister
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112538124

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Striving for the "whole Duty of Man by Lauren F. Pfister Pdf

This is an intellectual biography of the early life and missionary career of James Legge (1815-1897), a monumental figure in 19th century European sinology. In the first volume details about Legge's family, religious setting, and educational experiences in northeastern Scotland are shown to anchor his intellectual interests, shaping his later religious transformation and commitment to Chinese missionary work. The trial, adjustments and initial missionary strategies of the Legge family's first years in Malacca and the new colony of Hongkong (1840-1848) bring this volume to a close. In the second volume the flourishing of Legge's missionary scholarship is cast in the context of his application of « principles of Scottish Nonconformism and Scottish realist philosophy to many unexpected aspects of the Hongkong and Chinese contexts. While his sinological scholarship has weathered more than a century of criticism and neglect, Legge's unexpected emergence into roles as a Scottish Nonconformist prophet and counter-cultural folk hero in Hongkong reveal new dimensions of Protestant missions in China which challenge standard Orientalist interpretations of cultural imperialism.

Author : Terence Cuneo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108619608

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Thomas Reid on the Ethical Life by Terence Cuneo Pdf

This Element presents the rudiments of Thomas Reid's agency-centered ethical theory. According to this theory, an ethical theory must address three primary questions. What is it to be an agent? What is ethical reality like, such that agents could know it? And how can agents respond to ethical reality, commit themselves to being regulated by it, and act well in doing so? Reid's answers to these questions are wide-ranging, borrowing from the rational intuitionist, sentimentalist, Aristotelian, and Protestant natural law traditions. This Element explores how Reid blends together these influences, how he might respond to concerns raised by rival traditions, and specifies what distinguishes his approach from those of other modern philosophers.

Author : James W. Manns
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004246980

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Reid and his French Disciples by James W. Manns Pdf

This book offers a thorough account of Thomas Reid's philosophy, focussing on his expressionist aesthetics, then traces his influence in nineteenth-century France, in the works of such notable thinkers as Victor Cousin, Théodore Jouffroy, and René Sully-Prudhomme.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy, Scottish
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112751180

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Reid Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : NWU:35556032882128

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The New Scholasticism by Anonim Pdf

Includes section "Book Reviews."