{"id":194,"date":"2013-09-03T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/?p=194"},"modified":"2018-06-13T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T08:19:16","slug":"thomas-reid-1710-1796","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/2013\/09\/03\/thomas-reid-1710-1796\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Reid (1710-1796)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Reid<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Student of <a title=\"George Turnbull (1698-1748)\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/2013\/09\/27\/george-turnbull-1698-1748\/\">George Turnbull<\/a> at Aberdeen (ODNB*)<\/li>\n<li>Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, 1764-1780<\/li>\n<li>Founding member of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society (1758\u20131773) (see <a href=\"http:\/\/calms.abdn.ac.uk\/DServe\/dserve.exe?dsqServer=Calms&amp;dsqIni=Dserve.ini&amp;dsqApp=Archive&amp;dsqCmd=Show.tcl&amp;dsqDb=Catalog&amp;dsqPos=8&amp;dsqSearch=%28%28text%29=%27aberdeen%20philosophical%20society%27%29\">here<\/a> for membership and archival materials at University of Aberdeen, Special Collections)<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Glasgow Literary Society<\/li>\n<li>Critic of David Hume and proponent of &#8216;Common Sense&#8217; philosophy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Teaching<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Regent at King&#8217;s College, Aberdeen, 1751-1764 (ODNB*)<\/li>\n<li>At &#8216;public&#8217; class at Glasgow, lectured on pneumatology, ethics, and politics: two hours a day each morning during the session (ODNB*)<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Private&#8217; class three days a week during the session on the &#8216;culture of the mind&#8217; (ODNB*)<\/li>\n<li>Successful teacher who prospered despite having a dry style (ODNB*)<\/li>\n<li>Left teaching to his assistant <a title=\"Archibald Arthur (1744-1797)\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/2013\/09\/27\/archibald-arthur-1774-1797\/\">Archibald Arthur<\/a> in 1780 (ODNB*)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Publications<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>T Reid, Inquiry<em> into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense<\/em> (London and Edinburgh, 1764) Available from <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books\/about\/An_inquiry_into_the_human_mind.html?id=e2QAAAAAMAAJ&amp;redir_esc=y\">Google Books<\/a><\/li>\n<li>T Reid, <em>Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man<\/em> (1785) Available from the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/essaysonintellec00reiduoft\">Internet Archive<\/a><\/li>\n<li>T Reid, <em>Essays on the Active Powers of Man<\/em> (Edinburgh, 1788), includes chapter, &#8216;Of Systems of Natural Jurisprudence&#8217;, at 387-94) Available from <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=5ksOAAAAQAAJ&amp;source=gbs_navlinks_s\">Google Books<\/a><\/li>\n<li>T Reid, <em>Practical Ethics: Being Lectures and Papers on Natural Religion, Self-Government, Natural Jurisprudence, and the Law of Nations<\/em>, ed. Knud Haakonssen (Princeton, 1990) Available from <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=NMOCsxpsQLsC\">Google Books<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Material in Libraries, Archives, and Digital Collections<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abdn.ac.uk\/old-philosophy\/scottish\/\">Reid Project<\/a>: includes catalogue, bibliography and downloadable issues of <em>Reid Studies: An International Review of Scottish Philosophy<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abdn.ac.uk\/diss\/historic\/Thomas_Reid\/\">Papers of Thomas Reid<\/a> (Digitised by University of Aberdeen, Special Collections)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digitool.abdn.ac.uk\/R\/YJGVPN9NN26MXV7XCB53PM674VE91IC3VXYFHS1N97TI21CJEP-01607?func=collections-result&amp;collection_id=1366\">Thomas Reid Papers (MS 3061)<\/a>: essays and notes on a variety of topics (University of Aberdeen, Special Collections)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abdn.ac.uk\/diss\/historic\/Thomas_Reid\/MS_2131\/\">Birkwood Collection (MS 2131)<\/a>: &#8216;over 800 items relating to the writings and teachings of Thomas Reid&#8217; (University of Aberdeen, Special Collections). Including MS 2131\/7\/VII\/21, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abdn.ac.uk\/diss\/historic\/Thomas_Reid\/MS_2131\/7\/vii\/21\/\">&#8216;Of the Law of Nations&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A Arthur, &#8216;<a title=\"Archibald Arthur (1744-1797)\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/2013\/09\/27\/archibald-arthur-1774-1797\/\">Archibald Arthur<\/a>\u2019s notes on Thomas Reid\u2019s lectures (1765)&#8217;, Mitchell Library, Glasgow, MS 891086<\/li>\n<li>Robert Jack, \u2018Dr Reid\u2019s Lectures, 1774-1776\u2019,University of Glasgow, Special Collections (GUL) MS 116-18<\/li>\n<li>George Baird, &#8216;Notes from the Lectures of Dr Thomas Reid, 1779-80&#8217;, 8 vols, Mitchell Library, Glasgow, MS A104929<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/files\/2013\/04\/ReidT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-468 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/files\/2013\/04\/ReidT-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"NPG D5598; Thomas Reid by Charles Picart, after  John Tassie\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/files\/2013\/04\/ReidT-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/files\/2013\/04\/ReidT-624x780.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/files\/2013\/04\/ReidT.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npg.org.uk\/collections\/search\/portrait\/mw39993\/Thomas-Reid?\">Thomas Reid<\/a><br \/>\n<small>by Charles Picart, after John Tassie<br \/>\nstipple engraving, published 1811<br \/>\nNPG D5598<br \/>\n\u00a9 National Portrait Gallery, London<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Licence<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><em>*For references, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/category\/bibliography\/\">Site Bibliography<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Reid Student of George Turnbull at Aberdeen (ODNB*) Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, 1764-1780 Founding member of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society (1758\u20131773) (see here for membership and archival materials at University of Aberdeen, Special Collections) Member of the Glasgow Literary Society Critic of David Hume and proponent of &#8216;Common Sense&#8217; philosophy Teaching Regent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,52],"tags":[59,56,57,58,65],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":58,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/naturallawinscotland1625to1850\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}