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Manifest Activity - Thomas Reid's Theory of Action (Paperback)
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Manifest Activity - Thomas Reid's Theory of Action (Paperback)
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Manifest Activity presents and critically examines Thomas Reid's
doctrines about the model of human power, the will, our capacities
for purposeful conduct, and the place of our agency in the natural
world. Reid is one of the most important philosophers of the 18th
century, but hitherto under-appreciated; through the reconstruction
of his arguments, many of which have never before been discussed,
Gideon Yaffe demonstrates that Reid's simple prose and direct style
belie the complexity of the views he advocates and the subtlety of
the reasons he offers in their favor.
For Reid, contrary to the view of many of his predecessors, it is
simply manifest that we are active with respect to our behaviors;
it is manifest, he thinks, that our actions are not merely remote
products of forces that lie outside of our control. Reid holds,
instead, that actions are all and only those events that spring
from active power, and he produces insightful and imaginative
arguments for the claim that only a creature with a mind is capable
of having active power. He believes that only human beings, and
creatures "above us," are capable of directing events towards ends,
of endowing them with purpose or direction, the distinctive feature
of action. However, he also holds that all events, and not merely
human actions, are products of active power, power possessed either
by human beings or by God. This collection of theses leads Reid to
the view that human behavior and the progress of nature are both
essentially teleological. Patterns in nature are the products of
laws of which God is the author; patterns in human conduct are the
products of character and the laws that individuals set for
themselves.
ManifestActivity examines Reid's arguments for this view and the
view's implications for the nature of character, motivation, and
the special kind of causation involved in the production of human
behavior. Yaffe's assessment will greatly profit anyone working on
current theories of action and free will, as well as historians of
ideas.
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