Opis: Classification of Desires in St. Thomas and in Modern Sociology - Smith Henry Ignatius

Excerpt from Classification of Desires in St. Thomas and in Modern Sociology: Dissertation, Presented to the Faculty of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosopy

The aim of this dissertation is to explain the classification of desires as sources of human action, found in the writings of St. Thomas of Aquin, and to compare that classification with those of Ward and Small, who may be taken as representatives of modern sociology. Small speaks as follows as to the value of such an effort: "We may join with Tarde in finding the progenitors of our sociologists long before the name was invented. Tarde implies belief that the old philosophers and theologians were actually the pioneers in the fields of study which have at last reached such intensive cultivation that the class of investigators known as sociologists had to be differentiated. He speaks of the change promising better results, which is observable from the time when such specialists in sociology as the philologists, the philosophers of religion and especially the economists began to perform the more modest task of identifying minute facts and of formulating their laws." (General Sociology, p. 44.)

Efforts have been made throughout the history of philosophy in all of its lines, to arrive at a satisfactory classification of human desires. No classification has yet met general acceptance. McCosh says (Motive Powers, p. 13), "It would be of great service to every branch of mental science to have an approximately good classification of the appetences by which mankind are swayed. This is a difficult work, more so than the classification of plants or animals, the determining motives being so many and so varied in persons and in reality. ... It may be possible to form if not a perfect, a good provisional arrangement of man's springs of action."

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Szczegóły: Classification of Desires in St. Thomas and in Modern Sociology - Smith Henry Ignatius

Nazwa: Classification of Desires in St. Thomas and in Modern Sociology Dissertation, Presented to the Faculty of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosopy (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Smith Henry Ignatius
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330039724
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 66
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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