Critical Mass
How One Thing Leads to Another
Are there any laws of nature that influence the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves? In the seventeenth century, tired of the civil war ravaging England, Thomas Hobbes decided that he would work out what kind of government was needed for a stable society. His approach was based not on utopian wishful thinking but rather on Galileo's mechanics to construct a theory of government from first principles. His solution is unappealing to today's society, yet Hobbes had sparked a new way of thinking about human behavior in looking for the scientific rules of society. Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Auguste Comte, and John Stuart Mill pursu…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4668-0683-2
- EAN: 9781466806832
- Produktnummer: 22469466
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 528 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'223 KB
- Auflage: First Edition
- Abbildungen: 90 Black-and-White Illustrations Throughout/Notes/Bibliography/Index
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Philip Ball
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