Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical understanding) is, or at least, it should become one, the basis for the resolution of any philosophical problem. He does not agree with David Hom and George Berkeley that the outside world is only ideas in our minds. Reid claimed that it was common sense that tells us about the existence of the outside world. At one time and for some time in the age of the nineteenth, he was even more revered more than Home.
His theory of knowledge greatly influenced the philosophy of morality. He considered the epistemology of the introductory part of practical ethics: when we are convinced of our general beliefs through philosophy, then all our actions are committed in accordance with our beliefs, since we know that it is correct. His philosophy of morality resembles Latin Stoicism mediated by scholasticism, St. Thomas Aquinas and Christian attitude. He often quotes Cicero, from whom he actually borrowed the term “common sense”.
The translation of the book of T. Ri …
Author
Reed Thomas
Editor
Subbotin A. L.
Translator
Abramov M.I., Murberg Irina Igorevna
Publisher
Canon+, 2014
Series
History of philosophy in monuments
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