Thomas Reid (1710-1796) is increasingly seen as a philosopher of lasting importance and as a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. Intellectual Powers is his greatest work. It covers far more philosophical ground than the earlier, more popular Inquiry. Intellectual Powers and its companion volume, Essays on the Active Powers of Man, constitute the fullest, most original...(展开全部)

托马斯·里德（Thomas Reid，1710年4月26日－1796年10月7日）是18世纪苏格兰启蒙运动时期哲学家，苏格兰常识学派的创始人。里德开始任教于亚伯丁大学，后到格拉斯哥大学接任亚当·斯密成为该校的道德哲学讲座教授。

托马斯·里德（Thomas Reid，1710年4月26日－1796年10月7日）是18世纪苏格兰启蒙运动时期哲学家，苏格兰常识学派的创始人。里德开始任教于亚伯丁大学，后到格拉斯哥大学接任亚当·斯密成为该校的道德哲学讲座教授。

托马斯·里德（Thomas Reid，1710年4月26日－1796年10月7日）是18世纪苏格兰启蒙运动时期哲学家，苏格兰常识学派的创始人。里德开始任教于亚伯丁大学，后到格拉斯哥大学接任亚当·斯密成为该校的道德哲学讲座教授。

This volume offers a fresh exploration of the parts-whole relations within a power and among powers. While the metaphysics of powers has been extensively examined in the literature, powers have yet to be studied from the perspective of their mereology. Powers are often assumed to be atomic; and yet what they can do—and what can happen to them—is complex. But if powers are simp...(展开全部)

Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contem...(展开全部)

`Theory of the Modern Drama' is a brilliant analysis of the emergence and development of modern drama from the Renaissance to the present day. This concise but wide-ranging book discusses the work of Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Satre, Brecht and Wilder, among others.

Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contem...(展开全部)

I begin with the preliminary question of the conformity of faith with reason- and the use of philosophy in theology- because it has much influence on the main subject of my treatise- and because M. Bayle introduces it everywhere.' (jExcerpt from text)

I begin with the preliminary question of the conformity of faith with reason- and the use of philosophy in theology- because it has much influence on the main subject of my treatise- and because M. Bayle introduces it everywhere.' (jExcerpt from text)