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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 - 'Ethicks. Ethicks is the knowledge of these Laws by which Human Actions ought to be Regulated...’; ‘The Objects of Human Knowledge may be comprehended under two general Heads, Body and Mind...’ ; 'That there is such a thing as a Natural Language of Mankind...'; 'Of Self Love and Benevolence...’; 'Of the meaning of certain Terms used by Authors in speaking of the Principles of Morals...’; 'Of the motives to Virtue and its Nature...’
2 - 'London Review No. 1 pag. 1 etc. - Dr Beatties Essay - seems to have given new life to Dr Reids Inquiry.' Criticism of 'Inquiry', praising Priestley.
2a - 'From An Essay towards establishing the Melody and Measure of Speech...Lond. 1775.'
3 - 'Jurisprudentia Naturalis'
4 - 'My Course consists of these three Branches, Pneumatology, Ethicks and Politicks.'
5 - 'Practical Ethicks as most other Sciences may be treated either synthetically or Analytically...’
6 - 'Hope, Fear.' ; 'Fear, Hope'
7 - 'Account of Dr Smiths Theory.'
8 - MS.2131.3 III (26)
9 - 'Q. Ax. What we perceive by our Moral Faculty to be Mean, base unworthy...is Moral Evil...’
10 - '...would indeed be in point if the opinion of some Modern Philosophers that heat is no quality of the Water but a certain feeling in me...’
11 - 'The various simple Qualities of Actions which are the object of Moral Discernment.'
12 - 'Abstract Measures of Virtue and Vice.'
13 - 'First let us suppose that a man had this for his supreme End or governing Principle to conduct his actions...’
14 - 'Before we leave this Selfish System it is proper to observe that some have endeavoured to refine it...’
15 - 'The Question about the Liberty of Human Action stated What is Necessity?...’
16 - 'and supported by Authority. By Degrees it acquires Strength chiefly by the Means of Imitation and Exercise...’
17 - 'When a man comes to years of Understanding, he finds in himself a particular kind of Sentiment which regards his own conduct...’
18 - 'Having presented these things in General with regard to the various Theories of Virtue and of Moral Sentiments...’
19 - 'Reason may be of use to us in judging of colours...’
20 - 'Scrupulum Indaccuum est 1/1080 horae...’ 'The Primitive Church determined Easter...’
21 - 'Whether the different Systems Concerning the foundation of Morality have any influence...’
22 - 'Natural Good and evil to be distinguished from the Means of them.'
23 - 'The Second Class of pleasures and pains are those of Imagination and understanding.’
24 - 'Nat. and Cond. of the Passions. Pref. pag. 10, 11.'
25 - 'Musical Intervals are proportional to the Logarithms of the ratios of the vibrations...
26 - 'Many false Judgements that are called Deceptions of Sense arise from mistaking Relative Motion for real or absolute Motion.'
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