The Works of Thomas Reid with an Account of his Life and Writings. 3-vol. set (Complete)
New York: Published by N. Bangs and T. Mason for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1822. Later edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/4 x 6"). viii, 9-421, [1]pp (Vol. 1); iv, 5-434 (Vol. 2); vii, [1], [5]-317, [1]pp (Vol. 3). Contemporary full calf, with gilt-lettered leather titles to spines.
Originally published between 1813 and 1815, Dugald Stewart's "The Works of Thomas Reid" contains the complete works of Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid, a contemporary of David Hume, and the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense.
Reid played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment. He was given a professorship at King's College, Aberdeen in 1752, where he wrote "An Inquiry Into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense" (published in 1764). Shortly afterward he was given the prestigious Professorship of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow when he was called to replace Adam Smith. He resigned from this position in 1781.
Thomas Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of sensus communis) is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry. He disagreed with Hume, who asserted that we can never know what an external world consists of as our knowledge is limited to the ideas in the mind, and George Berkeley, who asserted that the external world is merely ideas in the mind. By contrast, Reid claimed that the foundations upon which our sensus communis are built justify our belief that there is an external world.
Ex-library copy with stickers at tail of spines, and upper left corner of each front cover. Ex-library bookplate on inside of each front cover, and printed notice on inside of each back cover. Library stamps to top and bottom paper edges. Bindings rubbed, with some abrasion to leather. Moderate to heavy foxing throughout. Bindings in overall fair, interior in fair to good- condition. f to g. Item #45244
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