The Nature of Social Laws: Machiavelli to MillCUP Archive, 1984 - 270 стор. 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. Although analytical rather than historical in approach, the discussions are always informed by a knowledge of the relevant context and sufficient detail is provided to characterise the views in question accurately. The critical expositions of the views are presented elegantly and succinctly, in a way which reveals their bearing on the problems involved - problems which are still the subject of lively debate today. The book, which is written with great clarity and balance, will be of interest to students and specialists in the history of ideas, philosophy, law, religion and the histories and methodologies of the different social sciences. |
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Acknowledgements page ix | 1 |
Divine legislation for Nature and Society | 10 |
From isolated generalizations to the circle of commerce | 25 |
Political principles and unintended consequences | 49 |
Social explanation as applied psychology | 70 |
The causal laws of social progress | 96 |
The methods of social economy | 125 |
Some economic laws of Malthus and Ricardo | 129 |
Two kinds of explanation | 201 |
Empirical laws and metaphysical causes | 204 |
The social physics of collective events | 209 |
the structure of a social science | 213 |
James Mills principles of human nature | 218 |
Macaulay on experimental method | 221 |
Derivative laws and empirical generalizations | 226 |
Approximate generalizations | 230 |
Natural tendencies and temporary effects | 132 |
J S Mill | 136 |
von Thünen | 144 |
Seniors basic principles of political economy | 147 |
Seniors basic principles criticized | 151 |
Vicos humanistic science of history | 158 |
The necessity of the eternal customs | 162 |
The method of historical knowledge | 170 |
The human creation of history | 176 |
Empathetic understanding and the pattern of history | 181 |
Comte and the objective knowledge of social stages | 187 |
The law of social evolution | 192 |
Knowledge of social wholes | 198 |
Resolving scientific laws | 233 |
Generality and precision in scientific laws | 237 |
The derivation of ethological laws | 241 |
Ethology as an independent science | 244 |
Speculation and social change | 248 |
Conclusion | 251 |
The search for laws vs the search for rules | 252 |
Reducibility and the search for social laws | 255 |
Our commonsense vocabulary and precise laws | 257 |
Can we hope to discover strict social laws? | 259 |
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