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With his Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism (1770), a vigorous defense of orthodoxy against the rationalism of David Hume, he achieved fame. Addressed to the layman, the essay is based on social rather than metaphysical arguments and enjoyed wide popularity. The next year he published the first part of The Minstrel, a poem in the Spenserian.
This reputation owes less to the philosophical uses Reid makes of common sense than to fellow Scotsman James Beattie, who popularized common sense in his very widely read An Essay on The Nature and Immutability of Truth In Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism (1770). Even today it is easy to overestimate and to misunderstand the role of common sense in Thomas Reid's philosophical system.
Author of The minstrel, The minstrel, or, The progress of genius, An essay on the nature and immutability of truth, Elements of moral science, An essay on the nature and immutability of truth, in opposition to sophistry and scepticism, Dissertations moral and critical, Evidences of the Christian religion, The poetical works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer.
About this Book Catalog Record Details. Essays on the nature and immutability of truth,. v.1. Beattie, James, 1735-1803. View full catalog record.
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