La libertad moral en Thomas Reid: La cuestión del método

Abstract

espanolPrecisamente en momentos en que el determinismo humeano de la voluntad estaba comenzando a tener fuerza de tradicion, surge Thomas Reid con una filosofia de la voluntad libre que tiene los rasgos principales de la tradicion clasica anterior a Hume, medieval y tempranamente moderna. Su metodo inductivo, sin embargo, esta tomado de Newton y del sentido comun. Desde esta metodologia ilustrada, Reid afirma que la voluntad es una facultad metafisica. Ha tenido influencia en la agent-cause theory, que se ha opuesto a la event-cause theory en la teoria de la accion contemporanea, de alli su alto interes historico. EnglishPrecisely, by the time in which humean’s will determinism was beginning to have strength of tradition, Thomas Reid arises with a philosophy of free will that had the main features of the pre-Hume classic tradition, medieval and early modern. His inductive method, however, is taken from Newton and from common sense. Since this illustrated methodology, Reid states that will is a metaphysical faculty. It has had influence in agent-cause theory, which has opposed to event-cause theory in contemporary action theory, thence its high historical interest.