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Essays on the Active Powers of Man by Thomas Reid (review)

Essays on the Active Powers of Man by Thomas Reid (review) , pp. 275­279 Thomas Reid. Essays on the Active Powers of Man. Edited by James A. Harris and Knud Haakonssen. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. xxv + 388. ISBN 978-0-271-03789-9, Cloth, $139.95. For anyone interested in Reid's moral psychology and ethics, the new edition of his Essays on the Active Powers of Man is a welcome addition to the Edinburgh Collection. This book, first announced as the sixth, finally arrives as the seventh of a ten volume collection, The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid, edited by Knud Haakonssen, which contains Reid's published and unpublished writings. During his lifetime, Reid published three volumes: An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764), Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785), and Essays on the Active Powers of Man (1788). With the most recent addition of Harris and Haakonssen's edition of the Active Powers, all three of these books are now available in a clear and well-documented critical edition. This new volume in the Edinburgh Edition has already become the standard critical edition of Reid's Active Powers. The editors begin this volume with an instructive account of the historical background of Reid's ideas, the genesis http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hume Studies Hume Society

Essays on the Active Powers of Man by Thomas Reid (review)

Hume Studies , Volume 37 (2) – Mar 12, 2011

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, pp. 275­279 Thomas Reid. Essays on the Active Powers of Man. Edited by James A. Harris and Knud Haakonssen. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. xxv + 388. ISBN 978-0-271-03789-9, Cloth, $139.95. For anyone interested in Reid's moral psychology and ethics, the new edition of his Essays on the Active Powers of Man is a welcome addition to the Edinburgh Collection. This book, first announced as the sixth, finally arrives as the seventh of a ten volume collection, The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid, edited by Knud Haakonssen, which contains Reid's published and unpublished writings. During his lifetime, Reid published three volumes: An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764), Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785), and Essays on the Active Powers of Man (1788). With the most recent addition of Harris and Haakonssen's edition of the Active Powers, all three of these books are now available in a clear and well-documented critical edition. This new volume in the Edinburgh Edition has already become the standard critical edition of Reid's Active Powers. The editors begin this volume with an instructive account of the historical background of Reid's ideas, the genesis

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