Lectures on Natural Theology (eBook)

Thomas Reid (Autor)

James A. Barham, Jake Akins (Herausgeber)

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2020
148 Seiten
Dexterity (Verlag)
978-1-64542-707-0 (ISBN)

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Thomas Reid (1710-1796) was one of the principal philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment. A colleague and friend of David Hume and Adam Smith, in 1764 Reid succeeded Smith to the University of Glasgow's Chair of Moral Philosophy. He is most famous for his work in epistemology, defending common sense (the exercise of our ordinary, inborn cognitive faculties) as the ultimate foundation of human knowledge.Reid was also an important contributor to the eighteenth-century debate on natural theology, that is, the inference from the evidence of purpose in nature to the existence and attributes of God. Although he never published a separate book on this subject, Reid did give regular lectures on natural theology at the University of Glasgow, of which several sets of student notes have survived. The notes edited, annotated, and published in this volume were from a student of Reid's who attended his natural theology lectures in the spring of 1780. These lectures have important implications for the history of discussions on the relation between natural science and theology, culminating in the modern Intelligent Design debate.The Lectures on Natural Theology were not included in the ten-volume Edinburgh Edition of Reid's collected works. Moreover, while two earlier editions of these lectures exist, both contain serious mistakes of transcription and annotation. For these reasons, this carefully revised edition of this important text fills an important gap in the literature.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.5.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Acts 10:34-35 • Aeneid • aims in nature • alexander of macedon • Alphonso X of Castile • Alphonzo • Analogy of Religion • anatomy • An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding • Arguments for the Existence of God • Ariadne's thread • Aristotle • Athalie (Athaliah) • Atheism • A Treatise of Human Nature • Beltistan theory • Beltistian scheme • Chance • chance contrasted with intelligent cause • chance not really the cause of anything • Christian doctrine of Creation • Colben • Common sense • common sense philosophy • Cosmological Argument • Cyrus • David Hume • De Legibus (On the Laws) • Demiurge • De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) • design argument • design contrasted with necessity • design inferences • design in the structure of the universe • De Usu Partium • Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion • Earth's Atmosphere • Earth's mineral deposits • Earth's shape • Elmer H. Duncan • ends • Epicureans • epicurus • eternity of matter • eternity of the world • Evil • fate • final causes • Fohi • founder of Chinese civilization • Francis Hutcheson • Fu Hsi • Gaius Julius Caesar • Galen of Pergamon • George Baird • George Campbell • Giovanni Alfonso Borelli • God • Greek physician • Gregory of Nazianzus • heathen philosophers • heathens • Henry Home • Hippocrates of Cos • Homer • human body • Human Mind • Hume's critique of design • I Corinthians 13:12 • James 1:13 • James J. Gibson • Jeremy Horrocks • Joseph Butler • J.S. Foster • leibniz • Lord Kames • Marcus Tullius Cicero • Natural and Revealed • nature as alleged causes • Nehemiah Grew • opposed to claims of origin by chance • Persian emperor • Peter Kolbe • Physiology • Planetary System • Plato • Platonism • play by Racine • Problem of evil • Psalms 119:71 • Psalms 90:2 • Psalms 94:9-10 • Purposes • Pythagoreanism • Rene Descartes • Roderick Chisholm • Samuel Clarke • Stars • St. Augustine • teleological argument • The Natural History of Religion • Theological Orations • Timaeus • utility of animals • utility of plants • Virgil • Watch • watchmaker analogy
• ISBN-10: 1-64542-707-2 / 1645427072
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64542-707-0 / 9781645427070