Thomas Reid on Practical Ethics
Published on 6. July 2007
Book
Hardback
480 pages
978-0-7486-1709-8 (ISBN)
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
905 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-1709-8 (9780748617098)
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Persons
Knud Haakonssen is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews and a Long-term Fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt. His books include The Science of a Legislator (Cambridge University Press, 1981), Natural Law and Moral Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and editions of Hume, Hutcheson, Reid and Smith. He is General Editor of the Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid.
Content
Contents; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; BY KNUD HAAKONSSEN; 1. REID'S REPUTATION; 2. THE DEVELOPMENT OF REID'S MORAL THOUGHT; 3. THE COHERENCE OF REID'S MORAL THOUGHT; 4. REID'S MANUSCRIPTS AND THE EDITOR'S COMMENTARY; 5. INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS; 6. DIAGRAMS OF REID'S SYSTEM; Thomas Reid; Lectures and Papers on; Practical Ethics; I. INTRODUCTORY LECTURE; II. DUTIES TO GOD; III. DUTIES TO OURSELVES: PRUDENCE, TEMPERANCE, FORTITUDE; IV. DUTIES TO OTHERS: JUSTICE; V. DUTIES TO OTHERS: INDIVIDUALS IN PRIVATE JURISPRUDENCE; VI. DUTIES TO OTHERS: INDIVIDUALS IN OECONOMICAL; JURISPRUDENCE; VII. DUTIES TO OTHERS: INDIVIDUALS IN POLITICAL JURISPRUDENCE; VIII. DUTIES TO OTHERS: STATES; IX. SUPPLEMENT TO DUTIES TO OURSELVES; X. NATURAL LAW AND NATURAL RIGHTS; XI. PROPERTY; XII. SUCCESSION; XIII. ON DISSOLUTION OF OBLIGATIONS AND ON INTERPRETATION; XIV. OECONOMICAL JURISPRUDENCE; XV. SOCIAL CONTRACT AS IMPLIED CONTRACT; XVI. POLITICAL JURISPRUDENCE; XVII. RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF STATES; Commentary; BY KNUD HAAKONSSEN; TEXTUAL NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.