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Thomas Reid on Logic, Rhetoric and the Fine Arts

Thomas Reid on Logic, Rhetoric and the Fine Arts

Papers on the Culture of the Mind

by Alexander Broadie
Hardback
Publication Date: 30/11/2004

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Thomas Reid saw the three subjects of logic, rhetoric, and the fine arts as closely cohering aspects of one endeavor that he called the culture of the mind. This was a topic on which Reid lectured for many years in Glasgow, and this volume presents as near a reconstruction of these lectures as is now possible.

Though virtually unknown today, this material in fact relates closely to Reid's published works and in particular to the late Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man and Essays on the Active Powers of Man. When composing these works, Reid drew primarily on his lectures on "pneumatology," which presented a theory of the mental powers, broadly conceived. These lectures were basic to the course on the culture of the mind that explained the cultivation of the mental powers. Although the Essays also included some elements from the material on the culture of the mind, the bulk of the latter was left in manuscript form, and Alexander Broadie's edition restores this important extension of Reid's overall work.

In addition, this volume continues the attractive combination of manuscript material and published work, in this case Reid's important and well-known essay on Aristotle's logic. This text was corrupted in earlier editions of Reid's works and is now restored to the state in which Reid left it.

This volume underscores Reid's great and growing significance, viewed both as a historical figure and as a philosopher. At the same time, it is of great interdisciplinary importance. While the material emerges directly from the core of Reid's philosophy, as now understood, it will appeal widely to people in literary, cultural, historical, and communications studies. In this regard, the present volume is a true fruit of the Scottish Enlightenment.
ISBN:
9780271026787
9780271026787
Category:
Philosophy: logic
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
30-11-2004
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pennsylvania State University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
400
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x29mm
Weight:
0.79kg

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