Robert Mackintosh

From Comte to Benjamin Kidd

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert Mackintosh, publishing in 1899, traces the connections between biology and sociology from Comte through Darwinism to Kidd's Social Evolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9781108004534
• ISBN-10: 1108004539
• Artikelnr.: 26968838

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
Part I. Comtism, with Some Scattered Parallels: 2. Comte's life and the principles of his teaching
3. The appeal to biology
4. The appeal to history
5. The doctrine of altruism
6. Comte's law-giving
Part II. Simple Evolutionism-Spencer, Stephen: 7. Darwinian and Spencerian conceptions of evolution-Darwin
8. Darwinian and Spencerian conceptions of evolution-Spencer
9. Mr. Spencer's three doctrines of human welfare
10. Mr. Leslie Stephen's 'Science of Ethics'
Part III. Darwinism, or Struggle for Existence: 11. 'Darwinism in Morals'-Miss Cobbe's protest
12. Darwinism in politics-Bagehot
13. Darwinism in ethics-Professor Alexander
14. Reaction from Darwinism-Huxley
15. Reaction from Darwinism-Drummond's 'Ascent of Man'
16. Reiteration of Darwinism: elimination made absolute-Mr. A. Sutherland
17. The metaphysics of natural selection
Part IV. Hyper-Darwinism-Weismann, Kidd: 18. 'Fairy Tale of Science'?
19. Hyper-Darwinism in sociology: struggle made absolute-Mr. Kidd
20. Summary and conclusions.