John Abercrombie: 5 books

The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings John Abercrombie, scottish physician and philosopher (1780-1844) This ebook presents «The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings», from John Abercrombie. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of...

According to Wikipedia: "John Abercrombie (10 October 1780 in Aberdeen 14 November 1844 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish physician and philosopher. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary says of him that after Dr James Gregory's death, he was "recognized as the first consulting physician in Scotland"... ...

NATURE AND IMPORTANCE OF THE SCIENCE OF THE MORAL FEELINGS. Man is to be contemplated as an intellectual, and as a moral being. By his intellectual powers, he acquires the knowledge of facts, observes their connexions, and traces the conclusions which arise out of them. These mental operations, however,...

Most recent sociological work on the theory of class is based on a distinction between Weberian and Marxist approaches. For the first part of this volume, the authors use this distinction to review the literature on the middle class, concentrating particularly on the traditions of Marxist theory and...