Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind an Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principle of Common Sense

1843. Thomas Reid was one of the most daring and original thinkers of the eighteenth century. His work became the cornerstone of the Scottish School of Common Sense Philosophy, and was highly influential in nineteenth-century America; it also anticipated the thinking of such twentieth-century figures as Moore and Wittgenstein. Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind expounds the Reidian theory of moral agency. The edition also includes some of Reid's correspondence, a biography by his disciple Dugald Stewart, and twenty-seven supplementary dissertations by Sir William Hamilton.Reid, Thomas is the author of 'Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind an Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principle of Common Sense' with ISBN 9780766191945 and ISBN 076619194X.