Manifest Activity
Subtitle: Thomas Reid's Theory of Action
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 19, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780199228034
Subjects: Ethics & moral philosophy; History of ideas, intellectual history; Philosophy of mind; Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800; Movements - Humanism; Philosophy / Free Will & Determinism; Free Will & Determinism; Philosophy
First sentence: Reid states the first of his arguments for the claim that where there is active power there is also will and understanding as follows: [I]f we had not will, and that degree of understanding which will necessarily implies, we could exert no active power, and consequently could have none: for power that cannot be exerted is no power.