Nature of social laws, the: machiavelli to mill

Auteur :
Brown, Robert
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521338295
Date de publication :
14 août 1986
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,6 cm
Poids :
420 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.