SPANISH

La lógica de las ciencias morales

By John Stuart Mill

Book information

Publisher
Consejo superior de investigaciones científicas
Year
2010
ISBN
8400091515, 9788400091514
Language
spanish
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8394669 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
198\206
Time added
2024-01-18 10:31:57

Description

This work by the greatest nineteenth-century liberal thinker is one of the founding documents of modern social science, yet its numerous subtle insights and methodological proposals have still not been exhaustively pursued. Mill contends that complex phenomena like those of society cannot be analyzed by casual empiricism or direct experiment. Merely "empirical laws" based on historical generalizations must ultimately be derivable from a deductive science of human nature, notably psychology. Mill argues that free choice is not incompatible with deterministic explanation, criticizes Bentham's reduction of human motives to self-interest, defends Comte's law of three stages, and holds out the prospect of greatly improved policy-making founded on a more advanced social science

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