When1: 1760
When2: 1820
Who: Scottish
What: philosophic school
Where: Scotland
Detail: Thomas Reid founded school that included James Oswald, James Beattie, Dugald Stewart, and Buffier. It emphasized common sense.
Aesthetics
Arts are useful for refining and perfecting people. Order, regularity, and unity relate to goodness and beauty. The beautiful inspires love and social feelings. The sublime is beautiful, has awe or terror, has no pain, and is great.
Epistemology
Basic and first mental contents are judgments, complex ideas, internal states, and general ideas.
Self-evident truths {commonsense truth} come from mind's nature and are actual and universal mental contents.
Ethics
Feeling is natural, original, and pure knowledge source. The good and the beautiful arouse same feelings and cause them in same way. Feelings are transition or halfway point between sense and desire satisfaction and moral and intellectual joys.
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