Early modern · 1710–1796
Who influenced Thomas Reid?
Influences
Founded common-sense realism against Hume: perception really puts us in touch with things.
Thomas Reid was influenced by George Berkeley and David Hume. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Thomas Reid?
Thomas Reid founded the Scottish School of Common Sense and was a leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. A contemporary of David Hume, he was Hume's earliest and fiercest critic.
He is known for his theory of perception and for an agent-causal theory of free will, set out in his Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind (1788). In 1783 he helped found the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Thomas Reid?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- George Berkeley 1685–1753
- David Hume 1711–1776
The line of teachers behind Thomas Reid
The longest documented line of influence ending at Thomas Reid runs 18 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Thomas Reid
Indirect influences
- Through David Hume: Michel de Montaigne, Nicolas Malebranche, Pierre Bayle
- Through George Berkeley: John Locke
Contemporaries of Thomas Reid
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Thomas Reid, with no direct line between them.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712–1778
- Denis Diderot 1713–1784
- Émilie du Châtelet 1706–1749
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac 1714–1780
- Hryhorii Skovoroda 1722–1794
- Adam Smith 1723–1790
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804
- Voltaire 1694–1778
Thomas Reid by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 61
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 35 — #34 of 36 among early modern philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Thomas Reid
- Who influenced Thomas Reid?
- George Berkeley and David Hume.
- Who did Thomas Reid influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Thomas Reid.
- When did Thomas Reid live?
- 1710–1796. The map files Thomas Reid under the early modern period.
- How rare is the Thomas Reid card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Thomas Reid in 35 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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