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A General View of Positivism
Häftad, 2009
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In A General View of Positivism French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798-1857) gives an overview of his social philosophy known as Positivism. Comte, credited with coining the term 'sociology' and one of the first to argue for it as a science, is concerned with reform, progress and the problem of …
The Catechism of Positive Religion
Or Summary Exposition of the Universal Religion in Thirteen Systematic Conversations between a Woman and a Priest of Humanity
Häftad, 2009
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This English edition of The Catechism of Positive Religion was published in 1891, thirty-four years after the death of Comte, the French philosopher of science and politics and founder of positivism, whose work was widely read in the later nineteenth century. Comte's self-published French original …
Evolution and Ethics
Delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, May 18, 1893
Häftad, 2009
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In 1893, the biologist and educator Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95) published the text of a public lecture on ethics and evolutionary theory. He opens Evolution and Ethics with the story of Jack and the Bean Stalk as a metaphor for cyclical evolution-the small seed that becomes a mature plant. Huxley …
History of the Inductive Sciences
From the Earliest to the Present Times
Häftad, 2010
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A central figure in Victorian science, William Whewell (1794-1866) held professorships in Mineralogy and Moral Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, before becoming Master of the college in 1841. His mathematical textbooks, such as A Treatise on Dynamics (1823), were instrumental in bringing …
History of the Inductive Sciences
From the Earliest to the Present Times
Häftad, 2010
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A central figure in Victorian science, William Whewell (1794-1866) held professorships in Mineralogy and Moral Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, before becoming Master of the college in 1841. His mathematical textbooks, such as A Treatise on Dynamics (1823), were instrumental in bringing …
History of the Inductive Sciences
From the Earliest to the Present Times
Häftad, 2010
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A central figure in Victorian science, William Whewell (1794-1866) held professorships in Mineralogy and Moral Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, before becoming Master of the college in 1841. His mathematical textbooks, such as A Treatise on Dynamics (1823), were instrumental in bringing …
An Essay on Intuitive Morals
Being an Attempt to Popularize Ethical Science
Häftad, 2010
422 kr
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Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904) was an Irish writer, social reformer and activist best known for her contributions to Victorian feminism and women's suffrage. After the death of her father in 1857, Cobbe travelled extensively across Europe before becoming a leader-writer addressing public issues …
An Essay on Intuitive Morals
Being an Attempt to Popularize Ethical Science
Häftad, 2010
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Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904) was an Irish writer, social reformer and activist best known for her contributions to Victorian feminism and women's suffrage. After the death of her father in 1857, Cobbe travelled extensively across Europe before becoming a leader-writer addressing public issues …
An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent
Häftad, 2010
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John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was a theologian and vicar at the university church in Oxford who became a leading thinker in the Oxford Movement, which sought to return Anglicanism to its Catholic roots. Newman converted to Catholicism in 1845 and became a cardinal in 1879. He published widely …
Physics and Politics
Or Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of Natural Selection and Inheritance to Political Society
Häftad, 2010
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Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) was an eminent British journalist, businessman and political commentator. After graduating from University College, London, in 1848, Bagehot joined his father's banking business. In 1857 he began to write articles for The Economist and became editor in 1861, a position he …
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
Av Thomas Reid
Häftad, 2011
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Thomas Reid (1710-1796) was a philosopher who founded the Scottish school of 'common sense'. Much of Reid's work is a critique of his contemporary, David Hume (1711-1776), whose empiricism he rejects. In this work, written after Reid's appointment to a professorship at the university of Glasgow, …
Letter Addressed to the Abbé Raynal on the Affairs of North-America
In Which the Mistakes in the Abbé's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up
Av Thomas Paine
Häftad, 2011
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First published in 1782, this response to Raynal's The Revolution of America (also reissued in this series) by Thomas Paine (1737-1809) has been eclipsed by Paine's other work and largely overlooked. Written a year after Raynal's account of the American Revolution appeared in English, Paine's …
Common Sense
With the Whole Appendix: the Address to the Quakers: Also, the Large Additions
Av Thomas Paine
Häftad, 2011
426 kr
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This famous pamphlet - published anonymously in 1776 because of its seditious content - by the British political radical Thomas Paine (1737-1809) laid out his pioneering ideas for American independence, and earned him the title of 'Father of the American Revolution'. The Declaration of …
Works of Thomas Hill Green
Av Thomas Hill Green, R. L. Nettleship
Häftad, 2011
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Thomas Hill Green (1836-82) was one of the most influential English thinkers of his time, and he made significant contributions to the development of political liberalism. Much of his career was spent at Balliol College, Oxford: having begun as a student of Jowett, he later acted effectively as his …
Works of Thomas Hill Green
Av Thomas Hill Green, R. L. Nettleship
Häftad, 2011
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Thomas Hill Green (1836-82) was one of the most influential English thinkers of his time, and he made significant contributions to the development of political liberalism. Much of his career was spent at Balliol College, Oxford: having begun as a student of Benjamin Jowett, he later acted …
Works of Thomas Hill Green
Av Thomas Hill Green, R. L. Nettleship
Häftad, 2011
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Thomas Hill Green (1836-82) was one of the most influential English thinkers of his time, and he made significant contributions to the development of political liberalism. Much of his career was spent at Balliol College, Oxford: having begun as a student of Benjamin Jowett, he later acted …
The Principles of Political Economy
Häftad, 2011
813 kr
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Henry Sidgwick, (1838-1900), philosopher, classicist, lecturer and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and supporter of women's university education, is well known for his Method of Ethics (1874), a significant and influential book on moral theory. First published in 1883, this work considers the …
Social Rights and Duties
Addresses to Ethical Societies
Häftad, 2011
455 kr
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Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), the founding editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, and a writer on philosophy, ethics, and literature, was educated at Eton, King's College London and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he remained as a fellow and a tutor for a number of years. Though a …
Social Rights and Duties
Addresses to Ethical Societies
Häftad, 2011
445 kr
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Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), the founding editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, and a writer on philosophy, ethics, and literature, was educated at Eton, King's College London and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he remained as a fellow and a tutor for a number of years. Though a …
The Law of Nations
Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the Conduct and Affairs of Nations and Sovereigns
Av Emmerich de Vattel, Joseph Chitty
Häftad, 2011
813 kr
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This enormously influential work by Swiss diplomat and jurist Emmerich de Vattel (1714-76) was first published in 1758, and is credited with shaping modern international law by applying natural law to international relations. Its argument for liberty and equality proved influential upon the …
Studies in Hegelian Cosmology
Av John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart
Häftad, 2011
487 kr
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John McTaggart (1866-1925) was a Cambridge philosopher, famous for his metaphysical theory that time is not real and that temporal order is an illusion. Although best known for his contributions to the philosophy of time, McTaggart also spent a large part of his career expounding Hegel's work. In …
Culture and Anarchy
An Essay in Political and Social Criticism
Häftad, 2011
635 kr
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By the middle of the nineteenth century, culture was often considered to be nothing but a meaningless 'smattering of Latin and Greek'. In this work, first published in 1869, Matthew Arnold (1822-88) redefines culture as a striving for 'the best that has been thought or said', and as a contrast to …
Knowledge and Reality
A Criticism of Mr F. H. Bradley's 'Principles of Logic'
Häftad, 2011
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After more than a decade teaching ancient Greek history and philosophy at University College, Oxford, British philosopher and political theorist Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923) resigned from his post to spend more time writing. He was particularly interested in contemporary social theory, and was …
Logic
Or, the Morphology of Knowledge
Häftad, 2011
601 kr
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After more than a decade teaching ancient Greek history and philosophy at University College, Oxford, British philosopher and political theorist Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923) resigned from his post to spend more time writing. He was particularly interested in contemporary social theory, and was …
Logic
Or, the Morphology of Knowledge
Häftad, 2011
455 kr
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After more than a decade teaching ancient Greek history and philosophy at University College, Oxford, British philosopher and political theorist Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923) resigned from his post to spend more time writing. He was particularly interested in contemporary social theory, and was …
A History of Aesthetic
Häftad, 2011
699 kr
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After more than ten years teaching ancient Greek history and philosophy at University College, Oxford, the British philosopher and political theorist Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923) resigned from his post to spend more time writing. He was particularly interested in contemporary social theory, but he …
The Philosophical Theory of the State
Häftad, 2012
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After more than a decade teaching ancient Greek history and philosophy at University College, Oxford, British philosopher and political theorist Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923) resigned from his post to spend more time writing. He was particularly interested in contemporary social theory, and was …
Appearance and Reality
A Metaphysical Essay
Häftad, 2011
796 kr
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F. H. Bradley (1846-1924) was the foremost philosopher of the British Idealist school, which came to prominence in the second half of the nineteenth century. Bradley, who was a life fellow of Merton College, Oxford, was influenced by Hegel, and also reacted against utilitarianism. He was recognised …
Ethical Studies
Häftad, 2012
487 kr
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British Idealist F. H. Bradley (1846-1924) was one of the most distinguished and influential philosophers of his time. He made contributions to metaphysics, moral philosophy and the philosophy of logic. The author of Appearance and Reality (1893), a classic in metaphysics (also reissued in this …
Essays on Truth and Reality
Häftad, 2011
699 kr
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F. H. Bradley (1846-1924) was the foremost philosopher of the British Idealist school, which came to prominence in the second half of the nineteenth century and remained influential into the first half of the twentieth. Bradley, who was educated at Oxford, and spent his life as a fellow of Merton …
