Thomas Reid: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Anatomy of the Self.(Review)

The Review of Metaphysics | June 1, 2000| | Copyright

GALLIE, Roger D. Thomas Reid: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Anatomy of the Self. Philosophical Studies Series, vol. 78. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. xiv + 198 pp. Cloth, $98.00--We are told by the author that this work is intended mainly as a study of Reid's moral philosophy and his aesthetics, partly by way of an exposition of Reid's anatomy of the self. What he serves up, however, is nearly half a book (five of nine chapters) on the anatomy of the self, that is, Reid's account of perception and sensation, agent and physical causation, motivation and free ...

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