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Thomas Reid on practical ethics : lectures and papers on natural religion, self-government, natural jurisprudence and the law of nations /
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 succeed...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796. Works. 1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (lxxxix, 404 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-361) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0748630805 9780748630806 0191795259 9780191795251 1281252220 9781281252227 9786611252229 6611252223 |