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Autore |
Mandelbaum Maurice <1908-1987.> |
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Titolo |
Purpose and Necessity in Social Theory / Maurice Mandelbaum |
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Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019 |
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Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 1987 |
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©1987 |
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ISBN |
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0-8018-3470-8 |
1-4214-3191-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 197 p. ) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social change |
Social choice |
Chance |
Necessity (Philosophy) |
Social sciences - Philosophy |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Bibliography: p. 171-190. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One. Introduction -- 1. The Analysis of Social Theories -- Part Two. Individualistic & -- Institutional Theories -- 2. Individualistic Theories of Purpose & -- Necessity -- On Purpose in Individualistic Theories -- Three Types of Necessitarian Explanation -- 3. Necessity & -- Purpose in Institutional Theories -- Developmental Laws and Patterns of Directional Change -- Other Social Laws -- Theories of Functional Necessity -- Part Three. Necessity, Chance & -- Choice -- 4. Determinism & -- Chance -- 5. Determinism & -- Choice -- The Determinants of Choice -- The Moral Implications of Determinism -- The Effectiveness of Choice -- 6. Necessity, Chance & -- Choice in Human Affairs -- Notes -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Originally published in 1987. Philosopher Maurice Mandelbaum offers a broad-ranging essay on the roles of chance, choice, purpose, and necessity in human events. He traces the many changes these concepts |
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have undergone, from the analyses of Hobbes and Spinoza, through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Mandelbaum examines two contrary tendencies in the history of social theories. Some thinkers, he shows, have explained the character of institutions in terms of their individual purposes, whereas others have stressed relationships of necessity among society's institutions. Mandelbaum discusses chance, choice, and necessity at length and reaches some provocative conclusions about the ways in which they are interwoven in human affairs. |
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