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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 reconstructed it here for the first time from Reid's manuscript lectures and papers, and it provides a considerable addition to our understanding not only of Reid but of the thought of the Scottish Enlightenment and of the education system of the time. The present work is a revised version of a work first published by Princeton University Press in 1990 which has long been out of print.
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1282 eup Thomas Reid 4/4/07 13:08 Page 1 THE EDINBURGH EDITION OF THOMAS REID THOMAS REID Knud Haakonssen is Professor of Intellectual History and Director of the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History, University of Sussex. He has written extensively on the philosophy of the Enlightenment and is General Editor of the Collected Works and Correspondence of Francis Hutcheson. General Editor: Knud Haakonssen Thomas Reid (1710–96) is an importance and a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. In recognition of this, the Edinburgh Edition makes available both the first critical editions of the philosophical treatises that established Reid as the great critic of David Hume and extensive manuscript ON PRACTICAL ETHICS original philosopher of lasting THOMAS REID ON PRACTICAL ETHICS materials which have never been published before and which show Enlightenment thinker. Introductions and notes by an international group of specialists make the volumes equally valuable to the student and to the scholar. Edited by Knud Haakonssen Reid as a strikingly versatile THOMAS REID ON PRACTICAL ETHICS Lectures and Papers on Natural Religion, Self-Government, Natural Jurisprudence and the Law of Nations Edited by Knud Haakonssen 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 (1710–96) – 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. The section on practical ethics took its starting point from the system of natural law and rights published by Francis Hutcheson. Knud Haakonssen has reconstructed it here for the first time from Reid’s manuscript lectures and papers, and it provides a considerable addition to our understanding not only of Reid but of the thought of the Scottish Enlightenment and of the education system of the time. The present work is a revised version of a work first published by Princeton University Press in 1990 which has long been out of print. James Tassie, Professor Thomas Reid, 1710–96. Philosopher. Courtesy of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Edited by Knud Haakonssen EDINBURGH EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS 22 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LF ISBN 978 0 7486 1709 8 THOMAS REID ON PRACTICAL ETHICS LECTURES AND PAPERS ON NATURAL RELIGION, SELF-GOVERNMENT, NATURAL JURISPRUDENCE AND THE LAW OF NATIONS THE EDINBURGH EDITION OF THOMAS REID General Editor Knud Haakonssen 1 Thomas Reid on the Animate Creation: Papers Relating to the