Excerpt from Social Purpose: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Civic Society This book is the outcome of a series of lectures delivered at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in August 1916 to the Summer School of the Civic and Moral Edu cation League. The lectures have been considerably altered and enlarged but it has not been thought necessary to remove all traces of the original lecture form. It may be thought that we have allowed ourselves to spend too much time on the discussion of abstract philo sophical ...
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Excerpt from Social Purpose: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Civic Society This book is the outcome of a series of lectures delivered at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in August 1916 to the Summer School of the Civic and Moral Edu cation League. The lectures have been considerably altered and enlarged but it has not been thought necessary to remove all traces of the original lecture form. It may be thought that we have allowed ourselves to spend too much time on the discussion of abstract philo sophical doctrines. But we have felt that the serious discussion of every particular social or political question depends in the last resort on a coherent philosophical conception of the nature of Civic society. One cannot analyse any social structure without raising the central problem of the principle of social organization in the mind of man; and when that issue has been raised, one must be ready to face it in all its severity and complexity. It is, we believe, a fault of much recent social philosophy that it makes its problem too artificially simple. It produces an admirably precise and lucid list of diversified social institutions, whose single defect is that it is untrue to the unity of the human spirit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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