| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 158 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Continuum studies in British philosophy
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Continuum studies in British philosophy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-153) and index. |
| Contents |
Reid's puzzling claims about the moral sense -- The background to Reid's moral epistemology -- Reid's legal concept of evidence -- Reid's epistemology -- Practical reason and the moral sense analogy -- Moral knowledge -- Disagreement, moral education and conclusion. |
| Summary |
Thomas Reid (1710-96) was one of the most daring and original thinkers of the eighteenth century. His work became the cornerstone of the Scottish School of Common Sense Philosophy, and was highly influential in nineteenth-century America; it also anticipated the thinking of such twentieth-century figures as Moore and Wittgenstein. Now, after a long period of neglect, his philosophy is again the subject of increasing attention across the world. For Reid, knowing about ethics is a matter of having 'good evidence' supplied by a sense-like moral faculty. William Davis's book shows how such a view. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796.
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Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796. |
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Virtue epistemology.
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Virtue epistemology. |
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Social ethics.
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Social ethics. |
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Law -- Philosophy.
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Law -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Law. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Davis, William C., 1960- Thomas Reid's Ethics. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2006 (DLC) 2007271457 |
| ISBN |
9781847144430 (electronic book) |
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1847144438 (electronic book) |
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0826488099 (hardback) |
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9780826488091 (hardback) |
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