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Knud Haakonssen - Political Economy and Utopia, or the Paternalistic Enlightenment in Scotland
Lectures in Intellectual History
English - October 07, 2014 17:15 - 55 minutes - 13.2 MB - ★★★★ - 52 ratingsHistory Society & Culture Philosophy philosophy culture education history lecture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Thomas Reid, the philosopher and founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, did not publish much on politics, but his manuscripts reveal that he was deeply concerned with social, political and economic issues throughout his career. In this talk, Knud Haakonssen presents an analysis of Reid's hitherto unpublished Glasgow lecture notes, and shows that Reid was an acute commentator on contemporary politics and that his theoretical ideas framed solutions to some of the practical political and economic problems of his day.