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Thomas Reid on Practical Ethics: Lectures and Papers on Natural Religion, Self-Government, Natural Jurisprudence and the Law of Nations

By Knud Haakonssen , Thomas Reid

Book information

Publisher
Penn State Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0271032294, 9780271032290, 0748617094, 9780748617098, 9780748630806
LCC
B1532.A5 H33 2007
Open Library ID
OL21321311M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1350362 bytes)
Series
Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid
Pages
497\497
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Library
demonoid.me
Time added
2011-03-06 17:00:15

Description

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.

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