 | John Stuart Mill - Evidence - 1856 - 560 pages
...state of society immediately preceding it. The fundamental problem, therefore, of the social science, is to find the laws according to which any state of...place. This opens the great and vexed question of the progress! veness of man and society ; an idea involved in every just conception of social phenomena... | |
 | Henry Owgan - Ethics - 1870 - 208 pages
...condition immediately preceding it, and that, therefore, the fundamental principle of social science is to find the laws according to which any state of society produces that which succeeds it ; because, in this science as in astronomy, phenomena are at the same time causes... | |
 | John Neville Keynes - Economics - 1891 - 390 pages
...further to be observed that as general sociology is frequently conceived, its one fundamental problem is "to find the laws according to which any state...the state which succeeds it and takes its place". 1 When sociology, as thus interpreted, can lay down propositions that are definitely formulated and... | |
 | Henry Sidgwick - Contracts - 1891 - 730 pages
...of it." Of this general science, as he afterwards explains (ch. x. § 2), " the fundamental problem is to find the laws according to which any state of...the state which succeeds it and takes its place." And the solution of this problem, as he goes on to explain, can only be advantageously attempted by... | |
 | John Neville Keynes - Economics - 1891 - 392 pages
...further to be observed that as general sociology is frequently conceived, its one fundamental problem is "to find the laws according to which any state...produces the state which succeeds it and takes its place".1 When sociology, as thus interpreted, can lay down propositions that are definitely formulated... | |
 | Frank Thilly - Philosophy - 1914 - 1358 pages
...produce, and the phenomena which characterize, states of society generally. The fundamental problem is to find the laws according to which any state of...which succeeds it and takes its place. This opens up the question of the progressiveness of man and society. There is a progressive change both in the... | |
 | John Henry Bridges - Positivism - 1915 - 508 pages
...state of society immediately preceding it. The fundamental problem, therefore, of the social science is to find the laws according to which any state of...the state which succeeds it and takes its place." l What do we mean precisely by a "state of society"? We mean by it the simultaneous condition of all... | |
 | Sir Ernest Barker - Political science - 1928 - 68 pages
...is true that John Stuart Mill once wrote that the fundamental problem of all social speculation was "to find the laws according to which any state of society produces the state which succeeds it." He was following Comte and the Positivist theory of successive stages in a superseding process of development,... | |
 | Karl Raimund Popper - Medical - 1971 - 380 pages
...formulations, eg in VI, ch. X, 2, last paragraph : ' The fundamental problem . . of the social science is to find the laws according to which any state of society produces the state which succeeds it . .'), K. Marx (see below) ; M. Weber (cp., for example, his definitions in the beginning of Methodische... | |
 | Lee R. Martin - Business & Economics - 1977 - 559 pages
...will be repeated (Teggart [1929, p. 331], Pollard [1968, p. 35]). For Mill, the problem is to "find laws according to which any state of society produces the state which succeeds it" ([1904, (1843), p. 595] ; see Van Doren [1967, p. 45] ). Mill [1909 (1848), pp. 9-21] presented a sequence... | |
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... the proximate cause of every state of society is the state of society immediately preceding it. The fundamental problem, therefore, of the social science, is to find the laws according to which any state of society produces the state which succeeds... 
