Logic of the Moral Sciences (eBook)

John Stuart Mill (Autor)

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2020
128 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-84703-0 (ISBN)

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John Stuart Mill (1806–73) was the most influential English philosopher of the nineteenth century. His vast intellectual output covered a range of subjects — traditional philosophy and logic, economics, political science — and included this work, a founding document in the area now known as social science. In The Logic of the Moral Sciences, Mill applied his considerable talents to examining how the study of human behavior, society, and history could be established on a rational, philosophical basis. The philosopher maintains that casual empiricism and direct experiment are not applicable to the study of complex social phenomena. Instead, "empirical laws," drawn from historical generalizations, must be derivable from a deductive science of human nature. Mills' insights and approaches have remained relevant in the century and a half since this treatise's publication. This volume will prove of vital interest to historians of philosophy and the social sciences as well as to undergraduate social science majors.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.5.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Thrift Editions
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: 19th Century History • 19th Century Philosophy • Auguste Comte • British history • deductive method • Francis Bacon • History of Logic • Logic • Philosophy • Social Science • Sociology • The study of history • Utilitarianism
• ISBN-10: 0-486-84703-9 / 0486847039
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-84703-0 / 9780486847030