Purpose and Necessity in Social Theory

• 第一著者: Mandelbaum, Maurice (auth)
• フォーマット: 電子媒体 図書の章
• 言語: 英語
• 出版事項: Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
• 主題: History of Western philosophy; Topics in philosophy
• オンライン･アクセス: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 have undergone, from the analyses of Hobbes and Spinoza, through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and...