Purpose and Necessity in Social Theory

• मुख्य लेखक: Mandelbaum, Maurice (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
• विषय: History of Western philosophy; Topics in philosophy
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: 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...