Introduction To Social Science: A Discourse In Three Parts - Softcover

George Henry Calvert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371436206 ISBN 13: 9780371436202

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

Introduction To Social Science: A Discourse In Three Parts by George Henry Calvert. This nineteenth?century treatise argues for a scientific approach to society and proposes an organic, labor?based social reorganization. In Part I New Truth—Knowledge, Calvert defends knowledge as the engine of progress and critiques religious and political setups that obstruct moral action; he uses figures like Shakespeare, Newton, Columbus to illustrate the growth of understanding and the danger of clinging to old forms. Part II The Actual analyzes current social arrangements and argues that law, wealth, and conventional institutions fail to produce justice or harmony, and that idleness and social discord proliferate with civilization. Part III Synthesis—The Possible advocates an organic association: two thousand people living under a common roof, working in alternating groups, organized by natural laws rather than coercion, to abolish idleness and realize a comprehensive, Christian?influenced social order. A prophetic blend of Christian ethics and Fourierian social theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371436206
• ISBN 13: 9780371436202
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172