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Essays on the Active Powers of Man: Volume 7 in the Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid

Essays on the Active Powers of Man: Volume 7 in the Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid

Harris, James A.
Reid, Thomas
Haakonssen, Knud

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid, Book 7

Philosophy

ISBN10: 027103789X
ISBN13: 9780271037899
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Aug 20 2010
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.67
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

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 overall philosophy. The first and larger part was published three years earlier as Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (edited as volume 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 Reid's near contemporary and acquaintance, Richard Price.

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