Essays on the active powers of man
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Essays on the active powers of man
（The Edinburgh edition of Thomas Reid / series editor, Knud Haakonssen, 7）
Edinburgh University Press, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [364]-370) and indexes
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Description
The 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 philosophy. The first and larger part was published three years earlier as Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (edited as vol. 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 Richard Price.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Editors' Introduction
- Note on the text
- Mode of reference
- Thomas Reid: Essays on the Active Powers of Man: Contents: Introduction
- Essay I Of Active Power in General
- Essay II Of the Will
- Essay III Of the Principles of Action
- Essay IV Of the Liberty of Moral Agents
- Essay V Of Morals
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- General Index.
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