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Thomas Reid on practical ethics : lectures and papers on natural religion, self-government, natural jurisprudence and the law of nations / edited by Knud Haakonssen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796.
- Series:
- Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796. 1996. Selections.
- Edinburgh edition of Thomas Reid
- Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796.
- Reid, Thomas.
- Applied ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (497 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- 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 reconstr
- Contents:
- COPYRIGHT; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 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; 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 JurisprudenceVIII. 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; TEXTUAL NOTES; Bibliography; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [336]-361) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611252229
- 9780191795251
- 0191795259
- 9781281252227
- 1281252220
- 9780748630806
- 0748630805
- OCLC:
- 437203027
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