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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452355203321

Autore

Reid Thomas <1710-1796.>

Titolo

Thomas Reid on practical ethics [[electronic resource] ] : lectures and papers on natural religion, self-government, natural jurisprudence and the law of nations / / edited by Knud Haakonssen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-19-179525-9

1-281-25222-0

9786611252229

0-7486-3080-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (497 p.)

Collana

Edinburgh edition of Thomas Reid

Altri autori (Persone)

HaakonssenKnud <1947->

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Applied ethics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [336]-361) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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