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Collapse MS 2131 - Thomas Reid, Professor of Moral Philosophy papers (The Birkwood Collection)

MS 2131 - Thomas Reid, Professor of Moral Philosophy papers (The Birkwood Collection)

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1 - 'Pneumatology B.' Notebook containing: 'My design in these Prelections is to handle these three branches of Philosophy, Pneumatology, Ethicks and Politicks...'; 'Although the perception of Objects by our Senses may be a subject that presents nothing curious...'; 'Of the external Senses.'

2 - ‘Pneumatology.’

3 - '...superior Weight of Argument lies, and What degree of assent is due. The first principles of every Science must be found in the Mind itself.'

4 - 'Appendix to Pneumatology.'

5 - 'The tone of the voice is as various as the passions of the Soul.'; 'Recap. In order that we may have a more distinct Notion of the Sensations.'

6 - 'Definitions and axioms are the foundation of all Science...'

7 - 'The parts of space all simultaneous...' ; Notes on memory, imagination and the power of human understanding.

8 - 'Lect. 2. Part 1. Ax. 5. The knowledge of the Powers and Operations of Mind or Spirit...’

9 - 'Do thou O God, who givest wisdom to them that ask it, of thee, enlighten our understandings...'; Before entering upon the Subject of my Prelections there are some things which I think proper to lay before you...you are all sensible of the loss which this University and you in particular sustained by the resignation of the learned and ingenious Gentleman who last filled this Chair...'

10 - 'Gentleman. You come here to acquire that knowledge and those good habits...’

11 - 'Pneumatology. Lect. 1.'

12 - 'Although the objects of human knowledge be innumerable, yet the channels by which it is conveyed to the Mind are probably but few.'

13 - 'Having now explained as distinctly as I am able the several Operations of the Understanding We shall next proceed to explain those of the Will.'

14 - 'We have endeavoured to point out the most important of those intuitive judgements...'; 'Inductive reasoning '

15 - 'In the last lecture I finished what I intended to say of the manner in which we learn to perceive by Sight...'

16 - 'The system of perceiving external objects by means of Phantasms or Ideas of them in the Mind...'

16a - 'The theory of Ideas seems to be built upon some reasoning of this kind.'

17 - 'The opinion of Democritus and Epicurus about Secondary Qualities '

18 - '...compounded of the Ideas of Sensation or Reflexion must be a word without any meaning'

19 - 'Of the Immateriality of the Soul...'

20 - 'We endeavoured in the last Lecture to explain the Phenomena of that train of thought which is constantly passing in the Human Mind when awake ....'

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III - Manuscripts [mainly politics lecture notes and notes on reading]

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