ON THE ACTIVE POWERS OF MAN. By THOMAS REID, D. D. F. R. S. EDIN. PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. He bath fhewed thee, O Man, what is good. MICAH. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR JOHN BELL, PARLIAMENT-SQUARE, M,DCC,LXXXVIII. 5. Whether Beings that have no Will nor Understanding 26 6. Of the efficient Causes of the Phænomena of Nature, 33 4I 48 ESSAY II. OF THE WILL. CHAP. 1. Obfervations concerning the Will, 59 2. Of the Influence of Incitements and Motives upon the 67 3. Of Operations of Mind which may be called Voluntary, 78 ESSAY III. OF THE PRINCIPLES OF ACTION. 92 CHAP. 1. There are Rational Principles of Action in Man, 2. Of Regard to our Good on the Whole, 3. The Tendency of this Principle, 4. Defects of this Principle, 5. Of the Notion of Duty, Rectitude, moral Obligation, 6. Of the Senfe of Duty, 7. Of moral Approbation and Disapprobation, 8. Obfervations concerning Confcience, 205 208 215 221 227 236 244 252 ESSAY IV. OF THE LIBERTY OF MORAL AGENTS. CHAP. I. The Notions of Moral Liberty and Neceffity ftated, 267 3. Caufes of the Ambiguity of thofe Words, 275. 281 CHAP. |