Thomas Reid on practical ethics : lectures and papers on natural religion, self-government, natural jurisprudence and the law of nations /

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Author / Creator:	Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2007.
Description:	1 online resource (lxxxix, 404 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Edinburgh edition of Thomas Reid Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796. Works. Selections. 1996.
Subject:	Reid, Thomas, -- 1710-1796. Reid, Thomas, -- 1710-1796. Applied ethics. Applied ethics. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11174236

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Other authors / contributors:	Haakonssen, Knud, 1947-
ISBN:	0748630805 9780748630806 0191795259 9780191795251 1281252220 9781281252227 9786611252229 6611252223 0748617094 9780748617098 9780271032290 0271032294
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-361) and index. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796. Thomas Reid on practical ethics. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2007

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