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An important conference with Piaget's "Principal Factors Determining Intellectual Evolution from Childhood to Adult Life", Jung's "Psychological Factors Determining Human Behavior", Janet's "Psychological Strength & Weakness in Mental Diseases", Carnap's "Logic", and 4 others.
Gives the Greek text, based on the Bekker edition, with English summaries and notes.
The foundation text for analytical English jurisprudence. The first volume of The Province of Jurisprudence appeared in 1832. being ten lectures compressed into six. These were his lectures delivred in the newly founded University of London (later University College), where he had been appointed professor of jurisprudence in 1826. "Interest in his lectures was revived when Sir Henry Maine lectured on jurisprudence and emphasized the value of Austin's examination of the meanings and uses of legal terms. In consequence Austin's widow in 1861 published a new edition of the Province and his Lectures on Jurisprudence . . ., with a biographical sketch by herself. The Province and the Lectures subsequently exercised enormous influence on jurisprudence in England, though it is now known that Austin had been greatly influenced by Bentham, with whom he was very friendly. The importance of his work was the strict delimitation of the sphere of law and its distinction from that of morality, elaboration of the idea of law as a kind of command, and the close examination of the connotations of such common legal terms and ideas as right, duty, liberty, injury, punishment, rights in rem and rights in personam . . . [F]rom his day until recently the predominant approach of English jurisprudence has been that of analysis of legal terms and concpets" [Oxford Companion to Law, p. 96].
PMM 209.
The foundation for modern criminal law. Beccaria applied a utilitarian test to crimes and punishments, constructing a scale of crimes according to the extent of social evil they produced and calibrating punishments to crimes so that for any given crime the pain of punishment minimally exceeded the pleasure produced from the crime.
Beehler was lecturer in philosophy at the University of British Columbia.
14 papers including Alan Ryan's "The Nature of Human Nature in Hobbes and Rousseau"; Jeann-Marie Benoist's "Classicism Revisited: Human Nature and Structure in Lévi-Strauss and Chomsky"; Koestler's "The Limits of Ma and His Predicament"; David Bohm's "Human Nature as the Product of our Mental Models"; Raymond Williams's "Social Darwinism"; John Maynard Smith's "Can We Change Human Nature? The Evidence of Genetics"; Michael Chance's "The Dimensions of Our Social Behavior"; Liam Hudson's "The Limits of Human Intelligence"; Max Clowes's "Man the Creative Machine: A Perspective from Artificial Intelligence Research"; Terry Winograd's "The Processes of Language Understanding."
Kress C1376; Goldsmiths 24656. Based on two manuscripts originally written by Bentham between 1775 and 1785, one in French and one in English. These were published in French by Dumont in 1811 as Théorie des Peines et des Récompenses, of which the Rationale of Reward occupied the second volume. Based on Bentham's original manuscripts, Smith's translation corrects a number of changes made by Dumont. The text begins with a classic statement of the utilitarian position: "The greatest happiness of the greatest number ought to be the object of every legislator …"
Inaugural dissertation for Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg. Sections on Grotius, Puffendorf, etc.
Translation of the first part, Allgemeine Staatslehre, of the 6th edition of Bluntschli's Die Lehre vom modernen Staat, edited by Edgar Loening. Books 1, 4, & 7 were translated by D[avid] G[eorge] Ritchie (1853-1903); books 2 & 3 by P[ercy] E[wing] Matheson (1859-1946); books 5 & 6 by [Sir] R[ichard] Lodge (1855-1936). This second edition in English is corrected but otherwise essentially unchanged. The Swiss-born Bluntschli was professor of political sciences in Heidelberg.
A widely read treatise on despotic systems of government in Asia, written as a kind of introduction to Montesquieu's Esprit de loix. The 1764 English translation was probably done by John Wilkes. There were numerous 18th century editions and an abridge form of the text appeared in the Encyclopédie as "Oeconomie politique."
Based on the author's University of Rochester doctoral dissertation.
Contains Dewey's "Discovery of the State"; Veblen's "The Predatory State"; Bertrand Russell's "The State as Organized Power"; Ortega y Gasset's "The State as 'Pure Dynamis'"; Albert Jay Nock's "'State' and Government"; Randolph Bourne's "Herd Impulses and the State"; Hobhouse's "The State as 'Divine Will'"; Niebuhr's "State Morality"; Lippmann's "The 'Free Collectivist' State"; H. G. Wells' "Towards the World-Commonweal"; etc.
Brownson was the leading 19th century American Catholic intellectual.
Doctoral dissertation at Philipps-Universität Marburg.
OCLC locates only two copies: Cornell & Yale. Apparently the first appearance of Campanella's De monarchia hispanica, which first appeared in Latin in 1640. It appears to be more of an abridged summary of the text (originally written by Campanella in 1600).Campanella's important treatise on contemporary politics and one of his two important utopian books, the other being the more famous Civitas solis. In the present work Campanella advocates a theocratic monarchy under the aegis of Spain and the Church. "Campanella evinces, among ideas singularly strange and erroneous, considerable practical knowledge of civil government. To extend Spanish rule in Europe he advised intermarriage of the Spaniards with other nationalities, urged the establishment of schools of astronomy, mathematics, mechanics, etc., and the immediate opening of a naval college to develop the resources of the New World and further the interests of its inhabitants. In general he advocated natural honesty and justice and the universal love of god and man in place of the utilitarian principles and egoism of Machiavelli" [Catholic Encyclopedia article on Campanella].
A comprehensive & well-written narrative history.
Charvet was Lecturer in Government at the London School of Economics.
Cobbe was a notable Victorian philanthropist, religious writer, feminist, and strident anti-vivisectionist—she was a founder of the National Anti-Vivisection Society in 1875, and in 1898 founded the British Association for the Abolition of Vivisection. The present volume reprints 6 essays on social issues that originally appeared in Fraser's Magazine, one from the Theological Review, and two essays printed for the first time. Includes "The Philosophy of the Poor-Laws" and "The Rights of Man and the Claims of Brutes."
PMM 295. One of the foundation texts for sociology and an influential text for the philosophy of science. Comte's law of three states "(first formulated in 1822) states that human thought, in its historical development, passes successively through three distinct phases: the theological (or fictional) state, the metaphysical (or abstract) state, and the positive (or scientific) state. In the theological state, man exlains the world around him in anthropomorphic terms, reducing natural processes to the whims of manlike gods and agencies. In the metaphysical state, deities are replaced by powers, potencies, forces, and other imperceptible causal agencies. The positive state repudiates both causal forces and gods and restricts itself to expressing precise, verifiable correlations between observable phenomena. While Comte believes that the theological and metaphysical states are based on a misconception of natural processes, he insists that they were essential preliminaries to the emergence of positive knowledge" [DSB: III: 375].
Comte's grand synthesis in which he emphasized the reformist aspects of his system much more than in the Cours de philosophie positive.
One of the nobles who supported the French revolution, Condorcet was, after being elected to the Convention, chosen to prepare the Girondist draft for the constitution, but although his proposals were almost always passed on the floor, they were very rarely put into effect. In 1793 he shared the fate of the Girondins: his arrest was ordered in July 1793, but he managed to remain hidden in Paris until March of the following year, during which time he wrote his most important book, the Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind, the Enlightenment's swan song.
Facsimile reprint of the Georgetown 1817 edition.
Reidel's introduction is a detailed 72 page discussion. The principal text first appeared in 1910 in the Abhandlungen der Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse and was reprinted in 1927 in the Gesammelte Schriften. Also includes Plan der Fortsetzung zum Aufbau der geschichtlichen Welt in den Geisteswissenschaften (Entwürfe zur Kritik der historischen Vernunft); Die Abgrenzung der Geisteswissenschaften (Dritte Studie zur Grundlegeung der Geisteswissenschaften); and Zusätze zum Aufbau der geschichtlichen Welt (Der logische Zusammenhang in den Geisteswissenschaften)—all three texts taken from the Gesammelte Schriften.
Contains sections on Thomas Hill Green, Bradley, and Bosanquet.
Duprat was professor of philosophy at the lycée de Rochefort.
Chapters on the art of dancing, of thinking, of writing, of religion, of morals.
Previously published in an abridged edition, under the title Landmarks in Scientific Socialism.
Papers delivered at the 17th Conference onf Science, Philosophy and Religion.
Contains a long critique of Freud's philosophy.
Wing F915. The last chapter (pages [293]-326) is "An Advertisement to the Jury-Men of England Touching Witches," in which Filmer takes issue with the methods of some of the earlier "witch-finders for determining whether a person is a witch. In particular he questions the reasoning of William Perkins, a religious zealot whose Discourse on the Damned Art of Witchcraft was considered by many rural magistrates as completely authoritative. This first appeared in 1653 without Filmer's name [See Coumont Demonology and Witchcraft: An Annotated Bibliography F33.1].Knighted by Charles I at the beginning of his reign, Filmer strident defended the absolute divine right of kings, founding his theory upon the idea that the government of a family by the father is the true original model for all government. He articulated his theory in a number of works — the 1648 Anarchy of a Limited and Mixed Monarchy (an attack on Philip Hunton's treatise on monarchy, which held that the king's prerogative is not superior to the authority of parliament); the pamphlet The Power of Kings; the 1648 King of England (not published until 1680); and his 1652 Observations concerning the Originall of Government upon Mr Hobbes's Leviathan … In the Free-Holders Grand Inquest he asserted that the Lords only give counsel to the king, the Commons only perform and consent to the ordinances of parliament, and the king alone is the maker of laws, which proceed purely from his will. The most complete exposition of Filmer's views is to be found in the 1680 Patriarchia, or the Natural Power of Kings, published decades after his death. Locke singled out Filmer as the most remarkable of the proponents of Divine Right and rebutted his arguments in great detail in the Two Treatises of Government.
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