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Analyses Reid's thought from epistemology, philosophy of mind and aesthetics to theory of action and moral philosophy, to show that he was a distinctive philosopher in his own right as well as a renowned critic of Hume. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of philosophy: aesthetics, moral philosophy and philosophy of mind. ... Read more

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Thomas Reid taught philosophy at Aberdeen and Glasgow in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Reid counters the general scepticism at which, it seemed, philosophy had arrived, especially in the writings of Hume. Reid holds that his sceptical opponents magnify problems for themselves by supposing that we perceive only idea, rather than things and he insists that no sceptic can maintain scepticism in practice. His alternative theory of knowledge, his views about causation and freedom of the will and his supporting arguments had great influence through the nineteenth century. Their force is being felt again with some distinctive doctrines, such as the communal character of knowledge, being given new and appreciative attention. In this collection of papers, many first delivered at a conference at the University of Glasgow held to celebrate the bi-centenary of Reid's death, the eminent contributors open a number and variety of doors into Reid and remind us that he remains a relevant force today. ... Read more

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Nichols offers the first comprehensive interpretation of the eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid's theory of perception - by far the most important feature of his philosophical system. Nichols's consummate knowledge of Reid's texts, lively examples, and plainspoken style make this book especially readable. It will be the definitive analysis for a long time to come.
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Thomas Reid (1710-96) was one of the most daring and original thinkers of the eighteenth century. His work became the cornerstone of the Scottish School of Common Sense Philosophy, and was highly influential in nineteenth-century America; it also anticipated the thinking of such twentieth-century figures as Moore and Wittgenstein. Now, after a long period of neglect, his philosophy is again the subject of increasing attention across the world. For Reid, knowing about ethics is a matter of having 'good evidence' supplied by a sense-like moral faculty. William Davis's book shows how such a view can be both consistent and plausible in the twenty-first century. "Thomas Reid's Ethics" begins by characterizing the state of moral epistemology at the time when Reid was writing. It goes on to recount Reid's central claims about the moral sense, and describes the various problems that confront those who would explain and defend his views. Davis lays the foundation for resolving these difficulties by detailing an epistemological conception of evidence, which parallels the legal conception of evidence used by the Scottish courts of Reid's day.He, then, shows how Reid's claims about evidence and self-evidence are best understood in light of this legal model. The book concludes by responding to recent worries about 'moral sense' theories, and offers a final assessment of the success of Reid's ethical project. The book will be of substantial interest not only to Reid scholars and historians of philosophy, but also to specialists and students in contemporary ethics. ... Read more

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What could bring heaven to the depths of hell?

Aliisza betrayed her lover, her mentor,and her son in order to try to stop the dark plot to kill the goddess Mystra. Shefailed. Now the goddess is dead, magic is malfunctioning, and Aliisza and her companionsare trapped. Her only hope of escape lies is in convincing the angels and demonsshe just betrayed to trust her and work together--before they kill each other.

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The Crystal Mountain by Thomas M. Reid
The Crystal Mountain by Thomas M. Reid- This is the last book in The Empyrean Odyssey trilogy, preceded by The Fractured Sky, being the second book, and The Gossamer Plains, the first. The story picks right up where The Fractured Sky left off and we find Tauran, Kael, Aliisza, Zasian Menz, Myshik, Micus, and Kaanyr Vhok all effected by the death of Mystra.

I'll just simply reword what the description says on the back of the book. Kaanyr Vhok wants revenge on the angels that held him captive, and he is finally in the position to be able to. Aliisza is torn between her son, the angel that freed her, and her lover in which to swear her alliance.

Negatives:
1) Eirwyn. While she wasn't a bad character, her side story wasn't really interesting. Don't get me wrong, it did show the confusion of the High Council and did have a purpose, but it just seemed to drag on.

Positives:
1) Characters. The way Aliisza changed is remarkable. I've liked her before but now she really blew me away by being so changed and understanding of her lot in life. She grew greatly as a character in this one, more so than the previous books. Kael also grew greatly within this book. He seemed to go from a main/ secondary character into someone that I want to read more about. Tauran was written well, and we can really feel sorry for him throughout the book. Vhok and his single mindedness
2) Return of one of my favorite characters. I can't give anything away, so I'll make this short. Seeing him return was just wonderful, and he still had the same vanity and humor as before.
3) Micus/ Myshik. What happens to them I just can't be more happy about. Once again, I can't give to much away, but it felt right and just that this happened.
4) The Spellplague. This is the first book that really showed what happened during it. I've read a couple before this, but it didn't really go into much detail. Now, however, seeing how destructive it is and how it corrupts a few characters really made me shiver.
5) The ending. It really wrapped up this trilogy very well. I'm happy with everything happening and how everything ended up. It just felt right.

Overall: 5/5
* I couldn't really find any major flaws in the story, and most of all the characters grew a lot and in a good way. *

Good end to a decent trilogy.
The Crystal Mountain by Thomas M. Reid concludes The Empyrean Odyssey trilogy. This book picks up directly after the events of the Fractured Sky. The main plots of The Crystal Mountain begins with Aliisza, Kaanyr Vhok, Kael Tauran, Zasian, Myshik, and Micus trying to find a way out of their predicament while Eirwyn has been called upon to divine what the future holds for the planes. These plots intertwine later to defense of/battle for the celestial plane. A couple subplots added are the relationship between Vhok, Aliisza, and Tauran, a character's ambitions as events unfold as well as their previous goal, and a couple others that would involve spoilers.

The pacing of this novel is a little faster than the previous two, The Gossamer Plain and The Fractured Sky. The battles are more engaging and longer. The flow is the same being that once there is a great place to add a cliff hanger for the time being, Mr. Reid shifts to other characters. This does make for irritation at times in the beginning because the shift usually went to Eirwyn's plot line which was not as interesting as it could have been. Later in the book, the shifts were spot on and added to the suspense.

The characters still have the same appeal to me that they did in the second book. Each had their own voice and agendas. Some new and old secondary characters add nicely to this one such as Vhissilka and Lord Axithar a balor. The other secondary character is spoiler related. There is also a good amount of character development. I still don't feel that the characters and story were on par with The Scions of Arrabar trilogy, but this book was right up there. There was an even amount of plot pushing the characters as well as character decisions to move the plot along.

There are a couple really good plot twists with this one but here is also another element I would say was more of a tweak. This happens with the addition of one of the secondary characters and what Mr. Reid did with the characters of Myshik and Micus. After seeing how the author uses these tweaks, it makes the story much more enjoyable. Another tweak happens to Aliisza.

A couple criticisms:

1. Eirwyn's plotline to me could have been contrived a bit better. I just couldn't connect very well with her in the beginning. Eventually, what happens makes sense, but it didn't go over well for me. Also with her plotline, there is a big gap between a few chapters that I had to stop and go back to try and figure out how things got that way.

2. Some things felt forced plot wise such as Eirwyn's. I wonder if WotC was able to let Mr. Reid work some of his magic with writing but also kept a loose leash on him so that the story could move to fit in the now 4E.

Some positives:

1. As I mentioned before, the tweaks that are added enhance the story significantly. There were some really nice and nasty surprises that I really enjoyed.

2. This is actually throughout the trilogy, but it is also detailed more in this book. That is the far reaching effects of the events that propel the FR into the 4E. Not only is Faerun affected, but also the planes and some of the Gods as well.

3. The characters were more fleshed out and easier to connect with this time. Their peril was more life threatening and exciting. Also, it wasn't just the plot pushing them to go here or there all the time. The movement was well balanced.

When I look back, this was a good ending to a decent trilogy. I don't think there will be much more that will be written about the past. This trilogy pretty much cements everything into the $E realms. The world is now a new place and things were fun back then and I can only imagine the surpri8ses and fun that will show up in the future. For realms fans, this is a good addition to the 4E transition and explains the future lore from the Triad perspective. I still believe that newbies to the realms may want to start elsewhere to geta better taste of it before venturing further with this trilogy.

-Dimndbangr
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Edinburgh : printed for John Bell, and G. G. J. & J. Robinson, London, 1788. vii,[1],493,[3]p. ; 4° ... Read more

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Thomas Reid (1710-1796) is now recognized as one of the towering figures of the Enlightenment. Best known for his published writings on epistemology and moral theory, he was also an accomplished mathematician and natural philosopher, as an earlier volume of his manuscripts edited by Paul Wood for the Edinburgh Reid Edition, Thomas Reid on the Animate Creation, has shown. The Correspondence of Thomas Reid collects all of the known letters to and from Reid in a fully annotated form. Letters already published by Sir William Hamilton and others have been reedited, and roughly half of the letters included appear in print for the first time. Writing in 1802, Reid's disciple and biographer Dugald Stewart doubted that Reid's correspondence "would be generally interesting." This collection proves otherwise, for the letters illuminate virtually every aspect of Reid's life and career and, in some instances, provide us with invaluable evidence about activities otherwise undocumented in his manuscripts or published works. Through his correspondence we can trace Reid's relations with contemporaries such as David Hume and his colleagues at both King's College, Aberdeen, and the University of Glasgow, as well as his engagement with the most controversial philosophical, scientific, and political issues of his day. If anything, the letters assembled here serve as the starting point for understanding Reid and his place in the Enlightenment. ... Read more

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This book provides a comprehensive account of ThomasReid's social thought. Although he is inreasingly being seen as acentral figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, there is still atendency among historians to view Reid principally as David Hume'schief critic. By relating Reid's writings to their contemporary socialand intellectual contexts, Peter Diamond seeks to qualify thistraditional image. He argues that in fact Reid understood himself tobe engaged in the Humean project of rendering the study of mansystematic and improvable, by ascertaining the laws of humannature. Diamond also demonstrates that Reid's well-known appeal to theprinciple of common sense was not just a metaphysical response toHumean skepticism; it was also a rhetorical attempt to teach men tolive virtuously in an emerging commercial society. ... Read more

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This book is a critical exposition of Reid's philosophicalanatomy of the self, his moral philosophy and his aesthetics, and isaimed at an advanced undergraduate and graduate readership. Thosefamiliar with Reid scholarship will be only too aware of how littleattention has been paid of late to Reid's accounts of beauty, ofsublimity and aesthetic assessment, compared with his moral philosophyand philosophy of action. One main purpose of this book is to helpremedy this imbalance, if only because of the very considerable impactof Reid's aesthetic thought in nineteenth century France.
Notoriously Reid presents his accounts of moral and aesthetic judgmentas the fruits of a sense of morals and of taste. Accordingly hisposition on the nature of a sense needs to be carefully considered, aswell as his position on the origin of conceptions needed for thedeployment of a sense. The Lehrer-Smith III computationalcomputer model of Reidian faculties is assessed at some length as aserious contribution to this task, especially since its employmentwould seem to presuppose positions at odds with crucial components inReid's account, which is also presented in the book, of the self asthinker, decision-maker and moral agent exercising both active andspeculative power. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1880.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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1898. This little book is an attempt to present Reid in a fresh light, and in his relations to present-day thought. It deals with the Scottish chapter in that enduring alternation between agnostic despair and endeavor after perfect insight which seems to be a law of the philosophic progress of mankind. Thomas Reid, homebred and self-contained, is the national representative, in the eighteenth century, of the via media between these extremes. In the concluding chapter I have looked at the philosophical appeal to inspired data of Common Sense, in the wider light of the theistic philosophy of the universe, and not merely as part of an inductive science of the human mind. This connects the theistic postulate of spiritual reason, as the foundation of human experience, with Reid's appeal to the ultimate but often dormant necessities of human nature. Contents: Boyhood and Ancestry: Strachan and the Valley of the Dee; At Marischal College; New Machar and David Hume; Old Aberdeen: A Regent in King's College; Universal Skepticism versus Inspired Common Sense: An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense; Glasgow College: The Professor of Moral Philosophy; In Philosophical Retirement: Authorship in Old Age; Inspired Common Sense and Causation: Active or Moral Power in Man; The End; Retrospective and Critical; and Reid in the Nineteenth Century: Development of the Common Sense Philosophy: Reid in France: Reid and Hamilton; Reid and Scoto-Hegelian Idealism; Ethical or Theistic Final Faith. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more