| Acknowledgements |
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11 | (13) |
| Abbreviations |
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13 | (2) |
| Introduction |
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15 | (10) |
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The Culture of Aberdeen in the Age of Improvement |
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25 | (66) |
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Introduction: ``Improvement'' in Eighteenth-Century Aberdeen |
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25 | (12) |
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Religion: The Legacy of Episcopacy |
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37 | (13) |
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Moderatism in the North East |
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50 | (11) |
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The Universities and Education |
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61 | (4) |
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The Arts Curricula and the New Science |
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65 | (19) |
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84 | (7) |
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91 | (46) |
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Introduction: The Problem of Reid's Intentions |
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91 | (11) |
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Turnbull and the Focus of Reid's Early Thought |
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102 | (7) |
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Reid's Philosophical Orations |
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109 | (10) |
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The Nature of Reid's Scientism: The Ideal Theory and the Appeal to Common Sense |
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119 | (14) |
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133 | (4) |
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The Rhetoric of Reid's Practical Morality |
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137 | (38) |
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137 | (3) |
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Philosophy as Practical Morality |
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140 | (5) |
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Philosophy Versus Rhetoric in Reid's Social Theory |
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145 | (7) |
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Rhetoric as Practical Morality |
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152 | (7) |
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Reid as Practical Moralist |
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159 | (7) |
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Conclusion: Practical Morality and Natural Religion |
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166 | (9) |
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Hume, Reid, and the Pursuit of ``Active Virtue'' |
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175 | (58) |
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Introduction: the Ciceronian Background |
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175 | (5) |
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The Framework of Reid's Social Theory |
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180 | (10) |
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190 | (20) |
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Naturalism in Hume and Reid |
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210 | (7) |
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Education and Human Improvement |
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217 | (10) |
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227 | (6) |
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Active Power and Moral Liberty |
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233 | (50) |
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Introduction: Reid and the Problem of Free Will |
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233 | (6) |
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The Hobbes-Bramhall Debate Over Freedom of the Will |
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239 | (6) |
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Restoring Moral Agency: The Natural-Law Response to Hobbes |
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245 | (13) |
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258 | (4) |
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Active Power and the Theory of Ideas: Locke and Hume |
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262 | (7) |
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Reid's Theory of the Will |
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269 | (8) |
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Conclusion: Moral Liberty and Human Improvement |
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277 | (6) |
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The Rational Principles of Action |
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283 | (54) |
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Introduction: the Basis of Reid's Social Theory |
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283 | (9) |
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292 | (7) |
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299 | (9) |
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Reid on Adam Smith's Moral Theory |
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308 | (5) |
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The First Principles of Morals |
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313 | (4) |
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317 | (15) |
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Conclusion: Reid's System of Natural Jurisprudence |
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332 | (5) |
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337 | (34) |
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337 | (23) |
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360 | (5) |
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365 | (6) |
| List of Works Cited |
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371 | (28) |
| Index |
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