Social Science and Modern Man: Alan B. Plaunt Memorial Lectures 1969

by Scott Gordon

The main theme of these lectures is man's struggle to understand himself as a social being. The author argues that the chief inspiration for this effort, insofar as it has been successful, has been the rationalist philosophy of physical science, and that constructive social science has been based on this philosophy rather than upon theology and ethical philosophy. He goes on to discuss the major problems confronting man in his attempts to come to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487599080
• ISBN13: 9781487599089
• Release Date: December 1970
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"