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Thomas Reid's Ethics moral epistemology on legal foundations
Title:
Thomas Reid's Ethics moral epistemology on legal foundations
Author:
Davis, William C., 1960-
ISBN:
9781847144430
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Publication Information:
London ; New York : Continuum, c2006.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 158 p.)
Series:
Continuum studies in British philosophy

Continuum studies in British philosophy.
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.
Abstract:
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.
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