Thomas Reid On Freedom And Morality

Author : William L. Rowe
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501718618

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Thomas Reid on Freedom and Morality by William L. Rowe Pdf

In this succinct and well-written book, one of our most eminent philosophers provides a fresh reading of the view of freedom and morality developed by Thomas Reid (1710-1796). Although contemporary theorists have written extensively about the Scottish philosopher's contributions to the theory of knowledge, this is the first book-length study of his contributions to the controversy over freedom and necessity. William L. Rowe argues that Reid developed a subtle, systematic theory of moral freedom based on the idea of the human being as a free and morally responsible agent. He carefully reconstructs the theory and explores the intellectual background to Reid's views in the work of John Locke, Samuel Clarke, and Anthony Collins. Rowe develops a novel account of Reid's conception of free action and relates it to contemporary arguments that moral responsibility for an action implies the power to have done otherwise. Distilling from Reid's work a viable version of the agency theory of freedom and responsibility, he suggests how Reid's theory can be defended against the major objections—both historical and contemporary—that have been advanced against it. Blending to good effect historical and philosophical analysis, Thomas Reid on Freedom and Morality should interest philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians.

Author : Thomas Reid
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748630806

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Thomas Reid on Practical Ethics by Thomas Reid Pdf

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.

Author : James Foster
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781474455374

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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 : S. Roeser
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0230219691

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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 : S. Roeser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Terence Cuneo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108706894

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Thomas Reid on the Ethical Life by Terence Cuneo Pdf

This Element presents Thomas Reid's agency-centered ethical theory. This means, one according to which agency intersects with the subject matter of ethics in a sufficiently wide range of important ways that we cannot satisfactorily engage in ethical theorizing without committing ourselves to and, ultimately developing, particular understandings of agency. Reid's agency-centered approach to ethics is introduced, and some ambiguities and puzzling features of his understanding of these components of agency are discussed. The Element explores how Reid might respond to challenges raised by the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition, on the one hand, and sentimentalism, on the other. The distinctiveness of Reid's approach is also examined here, indicating ways in which his view is not characteristically modern.

Author : Michael McKenna,David Widerker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351777513

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Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities by Michael McKenna,David Widerker Pdf

This book was published in 2003. This book explores an important issue within the free will debate: the relation between free will and moral responsibility. In his seminal article "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility", Harry Frankfurt launched a vigorous attack on the standard conception of that relation, questioning the claim that a person is morally responsible for what she has done only if she could have done otherwise. Since then, Frankfurt's thesis has been at the center of philosophical discussions on free will and moral responsibility. "Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities", edited by David Widerker and Michael McKenna, draws together the most recent work on Frankfurt's thesis by leading theorists in the area of free will and responsibility. As the majority of the essays appear here for the first time, "Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities" offers the newest developments in this important debate.

Author : Derk Pereboom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521029964

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Living Without Free Will by Derk Pereboom Pdf

Argues that morality, meaning and value remain intact even if we are not morally responsible for our actions.

Author : Joseph Raz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198248071

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The Morality of Freedom by Joseph Raz Pdf

"Morality of Freedom" is the winner of the W J M Mackenzie Prize of the Political Studies Association for 1987.

Author : John G. Cottingham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119165743

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Western Philosophy by John G. Cottingham Pdf

The new edition of this celebrated anthology surveys the Western philosophical tradition from its origins in ancient Greece to the work of today’s leading philosophers Western Philosophy: An Anthology provides an authoritative guided tour through the great tradition of Western philosophical thought. The seminal writings of the great philosophers along with more recent readings of contemporary interest are explored in 144 substantial and carefully chosen extracts, each preceded by a lucid introduction, guiding readers through the history of a diverse range of key arguments, and explaining how important theories fit into the unfolding story of Western philosophical inquiry. Broad in scope, the anthology covers all the main branches of philosophy: theory of knowledge and metaphysics, logic and language, philosophy of mind, the self and freedom, religion and science, moral philosophy, political theory, aesthetics, and the meaning of life, all in self-contained parts which can be worked on by students and instructors independently. The third edition of the Anthology contains newly incorporated classic texts from thinkers such as Aquinas, Machiavelli, Descartes, William James, and Wittgenstein. Each of the 144 individual extracts is now followed by sample questions focusing on the key philosophical problems raised by the excerpt, and accompanied by detailed further reading suggestions that include up-to-date links to online resources. Also new to this edition is an introductory essay written by John Cottingham, which offers advice to students on how to read and write about a philosophical text. Part of the Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies series, Western Philosophy: An Anthology, Third Edition remains an indispensable collection of classic source materials and expert insights for both beginning and advanced university students in a wide range of philosophy courses.

Author : A. van den Beld
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401723619

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Moral Responsibility and Ontology by A. van den Beld Pdf

Ton van den Beld This book is one of the results of the international conference on Moral Responsibility and Ontology, which was held at Utrecht University in 1 June 1998. It contains a selection of the revised versions of the papers discussed at the conference. The theme is in need of some clarification. In the first place, 'responsi bility' is an ambiguous term. Although addition of the adjective 'moral' reduces the variety of its meanings (for example, moral responsibility cannot be confused with causal responsibility), different interpretations are still possible. Thus, the care of dependent children is a parental moral responsibility. That is, parents have the moral obligation to care for their children. It is their moral task, or role, to do so. If they fail to fulfil this obligation, they might be morally responsible for the result of this failure. Here, another meaning of 'moral responsibility' is involved: the children's misery might be imputed to their parents. They may be liable to blame. Moral responsibility in this sense is what the conference was and this book is about. It is about the conditions which must be met for a person to be justly held responsible for his or her moral faults and failures.

Author : Knud Haakonssen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic reference sources
ISBN : 0521867436

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The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-century Philosophy by Knud Haakonssen Pdf

This two-volume set presents a comprehensive and up-to-date history of eighteenth-century philosophy. The subject is treated systematically by topic, not by individual thinker, school, or movement, thus enabling a much more historically nuanced picture of the period to be painted.

Author : Thomas Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1788
Category : Act (Philosophy)
ISBN : BL:A0019158471

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Essays on the Active Powers of Man by Thomas Reid Pdf

Author : Stewart Goetz
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441171832

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Freedom, Teleology, and Evil by Stewart Goetz Pdf

In Freedom, Teleology, and Evil Stewart Goetz defends the existence of libertarian freedom of the will. He argues that choices are essentially uncaused events with teleological explanations in the form of reasons or purposes. Because choices are uncaused events with teleological explanations, whenever agents choose they are free to choose otherwise. Given this freedom to choose otherwise, agents are morally responsible for how they choose. Thus, Goetz advocates and defends the principle of alternative possibilities which states that agents are morally responsible for a choice only if they are free to choose otherwise. Finally, given that agents have libertarian freedom, Goetz contends that this freedom is integral to the construction of a theodicy which explains why God allows evil.

Author : Timothy O'Connor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198030508

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Persons and Causes by Timothy O'Connor Pdf

This provocative book refurbishes the traditional account of freedom of will as reasons-guided "agent" causation, situating its account within a general metaphysics. O'Connor's discussion of the general concept of causation and of ontological reductionism v. emergence will specially interest metaphysicians and philosophers of mind.