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The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid - Essays on the Active Powers of Man

By Thomas Reid, Knud Haakonssen and James A. Harris

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About this book

Reid's last major work, The Active Powers shows how principles of Common Sense 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.
About the contributors

Knud Haakonssen

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.

James A. Harris

James A. Harris is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews.