From Comte to Benjamin Kidd Mackintosh Paperback Cambridge University Press

From Comte to Benjamin KiddThe Appeal to Biology or Evolution for Human Guidance\nAuthor(s): Robert Mackintosh\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108004534, 978-1108004534\nSynopsis\nRobert Mackintosh [tel], a professor at the Congregationalist Lancashire Independent College, traces the influence of biology and evolutionism on the study of human ethics and society during the second half of the nineteenth century in this 1899 book. He begins with Comte's founding of sociology, and continues with the renewed appeal to biology for the understanding of human affairs found in the work of Darwin, Spencer and their circle. He then looks at Benjamin Kidd's Social Evolution, published in [tel]and also reissued in this series). Fifty years after Comte, Kidd argued that sociology required further grounding by a new recourse to biology. Mackintosh supported Kidd's view. If biological clues are to afford gui.