The Theory of Knowledge: a Contribution to Some Problems of Logic and Metaphysics

Hardcover. Publisher's green cloth. No dust jacket. Solid binding. Scuffed bottom spine edge, with loss. Pages unmarked. Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse was an English sociologist and philosopher who tried to reconcile liberalism with collectivism in the interest of social progress. In elaborating his conception of sociology, he drew on his knowledge of several other fields: philosophy, psychology, biology, anthropology, and the history of religion, ethics, and law. Interested in the process of social change, Hobhouse tried to correlate such change with its contribution to the general advance of the community; he also studied the history of knowledge, morals, and religions in relation to social change.