The Nature of Social Laws

Klappentext This volume is a study of the development of the idea that human social behaviour is governed by laws comparable to the laws of natural science. Zusammenfassung This volume is a study of the development of the idea that human social behaviour is governed by laws comparable to the laws of natural science. The author sets out to provide a clear account of the arguments put forward from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries about the nature and possibility of social laws. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. From isolated generalisations to the 'circle of commerce'; 2. Political principles and unintended consequences; 3. Social explanation as applied psychology; 4. The causal laws of social progress; 5. The methods of social economy; 6. Vico's humanistic science of history; 7. Comte and the objective knowledge of social stages; 8. J. S. Mill: the structure of a social science; Conclusion; Index.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Robert Brown
• Edition: External catalogues UK
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 09.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521338295
• ISBN: 978-0-521-33829-5
• Thème: Cambridge Paperback Library
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie > Général, dictionnaires; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy