Knud Haakonssen is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews and a Long-term Fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt. His books include The Science of a Legislator (Cambridge University Press, 1981), Natural Law and Moral Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and editions of Hume, Hutcheson, Reid and Smith. He is General Editor of the Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid.

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• Contents; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; BY KNUD HAAKONSSEN; 1. REID'S REPUTATION; 2. THE DEVELOPMENT OF REID'S MORAL THOUGHT; 3. THE COHERENCE OF REID'S MORAL THOUGHT; 4. REID'S MANUSCRIPTS AND THE EDITOR'S COMMENTARY; 5. INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS; 6. DIAGRAMS OF REID'S SYSTEM; Thomas Reid; Lectures and Papers on; Practical Ethics; I. INTRODUCTORY LECTURE; II. DUTIES TO GOD; III. DUTIES TO OURSELVES: PRUDENCE, TEMPERANCE, FORTITUDE; IV. DUTIES TO OTHERS: JUSTICE; V. DUTIES TO OTHERS: INDIVIDUALS IN PRIVATE JURISPRUDENCE; VI. DUTIES TO OTHERS: INDIVIDUALS IN OECONOMICAL; JURISPRUDENCE; VII. DUTIES TO OTHERS: INDIVIDUALS IN POLITICAL JURISPRUDENCE; VIII. DUTIES TO OTHERS: STATES; IX. SUPPLEMENT TO DUTIES TO OURSELVES; X. NATURAL LAW AND NATURAL RIGHTS; XI. PROPERTY; XII. SUCCESSION; XIII. ON DISSOLUTION OF OBLIGATIONS AND ON INTERPRETATION; XIV. OECONOMICAL JURISPRUDENCE; XV. SOCIAL CONTRACT AS IMPLIED CONTRACT; XVI. POLITICAL JURISPRUDENCE; XVII. RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF STATES; Commentary; BY KNUD HAAKONSSEN; TEXTUAL NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

Knud Haakonssen is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews and a Long-term Fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt. His books include The Science of a Legislator (Cambridge University Press, 1981), Natural Law and Moral Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and editions of Hume, Hutcheson, Reid and Smith. He is General Editor of the Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid.

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• Contents; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; BY KNUD HAAKONSSEN; 1. REID'S REPUTATION; 2. THE DEVELOPMENT OF REID'S MORAL THOUGHT; 3. THE COHERENCE OF REID'S MORAL THOUGHT; 4. REID'S MANUSCRIPTS AND THE EDITOR'S COMMENTARY; 5. INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS; 6. DIAGRAMS OF REID'S SYSTEM; Thomas Reid; Lectures and Papers on; Practical Ethics; I. INTRODUCTORY LECTURE; II. DUTIES TO GOD; III. DUTIES TO OURSELVES: PRUDENCE, TEMPERANCE, FORTITUDE; IV. DUTIES TO OTHERS: JUSTICE; V. DUTIES TO OTHERS: INDIVIDUALS IN PRIVATE JURISPRUDENCE; VI. DUTIES TO OTHERS: INDIVIDUALS IN OECONOMICAL; JURISPRUDENCE; VII. DUTIES TO OTHERS: INDIVIDUALS IN POLITICAL JURISPRUDENCE; VIII. DUTIES TO OTHERS: STATES; IX. SUPPLEMENT TO DUTIES TO OURSELVES; X. NATURAL LAW AND NATURAL RIGHTS; XI. PROPERTY; XII. SUCCESSION; XIII. ON DISSOLUTION OF OBLIGATIONS AND ON INTERPRETATION; XIV. OECONOMICAL JURISPRUDENCE; XV. SOCIAL CONTRACT AS IMPLIED CONTRACT; XVI. POLITICAL JURISPRUDENCE; XVII. RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF STATES; Commentary; BY KNUD HAAKONSSEN; TEXTUAL NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.