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The Social Dynamics of George H. Mead (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1973)
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The Social Dynamics of George H. Mead (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1973)
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Twelve years after his Origin of Species, Charles Darwin published
his Descent of Man. If the first book brought the gases of
philosophi cal controversy to fever heat, the second exploded them
in fiery roars. The issue was the nature, the condition, and the
destiny of genus humanum. According to the prevailing Genteel
Tradition mankind was a congregation of embodied immortal souls,
each with its fixed identity, rights and duties, living together
with its immortal neigh bors under conditions imposed by "the laws
of nature and of nature's God." Obedience or disobedience of these
laws destined all to eternal bliss or eternal damnation. What had
come to be called "evolution" was assimilated to the Tradition in
diverse interpretations such as John Fiske's, Henry Drummond's and
Charles Pierce's. Their common ten dency was to establish
"evolution" as somehow the method whereby divine providence ordains
the conditions under which man accom plishes his destiny. The most
productive competitor of the Genteel Tradition went by various
names, with positivism, materialism and naturalism the most
telling. Its success as competitor was not due to its theological
or metaphysical import. Its success flowed from its mode of
observing how effects or results, those undesired as well as those
desired, got produced. Unified and generalized, these observations
were taken for notations of causal sequences always and everywhere
the same, thus for laws of "nature" to whose workings "the
providence of God" added nothing productive and could be and was
dispensed with."
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Imprint: |
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Country of origin: |
Netherlands |
Release date: |
July 1973 |
First published: |
1973 |
Authors: |
M.A. Natanson
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Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 6mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
122 |
Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1973 |
ISBN-13: |
978-90-247-1489-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
General
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LSN: |
90-247-1489-3 |
Barcode: |
9789024714896 |
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