The Character and Logical Method of Political EconomyW. McGee, 1869 - 184 頁 The work on the “Character and Logical Method of Political Economy” may be recommended to students as a safe guide to help them through the mazy labyrinths which the earlier stages of the study present. The purpose of the work is to ascertain the true relation of Political Economy to the Physical Sciences on the one hand, and to the Moral Sciences on the other, both as regards method and compass. The supporters and opponents of Political Economy have each done it injustice by misapprehending its aims and limits. The study, as Professor Cairnes points out and explains with inimitable clearness, does not consist in an investigation into the causes of physical facts or the evolution of psychological processes. Political Economy begins at the point at which physical science and psychological science each end. |
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... explain the present vacillating and unsatisfactory condition of the science in respect to fundamental principles . To understand this , I think we must advert to circumstances of a more special character , and , more particularly , to ...
... explanation of phenomena . The word " law " is not introduced into the latter definition , because the explana- tion of a phenomenon presupposes the discovery of the law or laws on which it depends . † Vide Whately's Introductory ...
... explanation of the failure is substantially the same . " Aristotle , " he says , 66 at least , saw the necessity of having recourse to nature for something like principles of physical science ; and , as an observer , a collector and ...
... explain how the existence of the facts in question is consistent with social well- being and natural equity ; and generally succeeds in deluding himself with the idea that he has solved an economic problem , when , in fact , he has only ...
... explain , depend equally on physical as on mental laws , that Political Economy stands in precisely the same re- lation to physical as to mental nature , and that , if it is to be ranked in either of these departments of spe- culation ...