Thomas Reid: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Anatomy of the Self

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R.D. Gallie

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Philosophical Studies Series

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This book is a critical exposition of Reid's philosophical anatomy of the self, his moral philosophy and his aesthetics, and is aimed at an advanced undergraduate and graduate readership. Those familiar with Reid scholarship will be only too aware of how little attention has been paid of late to Reid's accounts of beauty, of sublimity and aesthetic assessment, compared with his moral philosophy and philosophy of action. One main purpose of this book is to help remedy this imbalance, if only because of the very considerable impact of Reid's aesthetic thought in nineteenth century France. Notoriously Reid presents his accounts of moral and aesthetic judgment as the fruits of a sense of morals and of taste. Accordingly his position on the nature of a sense needs to be carefully considered, as well as his position on the origin of conceptions needed for the deployment of a sense. The Lehrer-Smith III computational computer model of Reidian faculties is assessed at some length as a serious contribution to this task, especially since its employment would seem to presuppose positions at odds with crucial components in Reid's account, which is also presented in the book, of the self as thinker, decision-maker and moral agent exercising both active and speculative power.

Release date NZ

January 23rd, 2011

Author

R.D. Gallie

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998

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XIV, 202 p.

Pages

202

Series

Philosophical Studies Series

Dimensions

155x235x11

ISBN-13

9789048150953

Product ID

8963531

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