Author: Gallie, Roger D.
Title: Thomas Reid: Ethics, Aesthetics and the anatomy of the self.
Description: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998, 1. Hardcover. 198 pp. As New. This book is a critical exposition of Reid's philosophical anatomy of the self, his moralphilosophy and his aesthetics, and is aimed at an advanced undergraduateand graduate readership. Those familiar with Reid scholarship will beonly too aware of how little attention has been paid of late to Reid'saccounts of beauty, of sublimity and aesthetic assessment, compared withhis moral philosophy and philosophy of action. One main purpose of thisbook is to help remedy this imbalance, if only because of the veryconsiderable impact of Reid's aesthetic thought in nineteenth centuryFrance. Notoriously Reid presents his accounts of moral and aestheticjudgment as the fruits of a sense of morals and of taste. Accordinglyhis position on the nature of a sense needs to be carefully considered,as well as his position on the origin of conceptions needed for thedeployment of a sense. The Lehrer-Smith III computational computer modelof Reidian faculties is assessed at some length as a seriouscontribution to this task, especially since its employment would seem topresuppose 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 speculativepower.. ISBN: 97890512
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Title: Thomas Reid: Ethics, Aesthetics and the anatomy of the self.
Description: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998, 1. Hardcover. 198 pp. As New. This book is a critical exposition of Reid's philosophical anatomy of the self, his moralphilosophy and his aesthetics, and is aimed at an advanced undergraduateand graduate readership. Those familiar with Reid scholarship will beonly too aware of how little attention has been paid of late to Reid'saccounts of beauty, of sublimity and aesthetic assessment, compared withhis moral philosophy and philosophy of action. One main purpose of thisbook is to help remedy this imbalance, if only because of the veryconsiderable impact of Reid's aesthetic thought in nineteenth centuryFrance. Notoriously Reid presents his accounts of moral and aestheticjudgment as the fruits of a sense of morals and of taste. Accordinglyhis position on the nature of a sense needs to be carefully considered,as well as his position on the origin of conceptions needed for thedeployment of a sense. The Lehrer-Smith III computational computer modelof Reidian faculties is assessed at some length as a seriouscontribution to this task, especially since its employment would seem topresuppose 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 speculativepower.. ISBN: 97890512
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- Book number: 161653227
- Book number: 161653227
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