Book VI: On the Logic of the Moral Sciences

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Book VI: On the Logic of the Moral Sciences is the concluding section of John Stuart Mill’s *A System of Logic* that develops his influential account of the methods and philosophical foundations of the social and moral sciences.

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logic of the moral sciences ×1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book section → philosophical work →
aimsTo	clarify the methods appropriate to studying human conduct → justify the scientific status of moral and social inquiry →
argues	for the possibility of a science of society → that social laws are grounded in laws of individual psychology →
associatedWith	classical liberalism → utilitarianism →
author	John Stuart Mill NERFINISHED →
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom →
distinguishes	between science of morals and art of morals →
firstPublishedIn	A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive NERFINISHED →
genre	logic → moral philosophy → philosophy of science → social philosophy →
hasPart	chapters on the logic of practice → chapters on the logic of the moral sciences → chapters on the logic of the social sciences →
influenced	19th-century social thought → later utilitarian moral theory → methodology of the social sciences → philosophy of social science →
influencedBy	Auguste Comte → British empiricism → David Hume → associationist psychology →
language	English →
mainTopic	causal explanation in social phenomena → distinction between art and science in morals → ethics as a practical science → inductive methods in social inquiry → laws of social life → logic of the moral sciences → methodology of the social sciences → philosophical foundations of the moral sciences → relationship between individual psychology and social science →
notableFor	integration of ethics with logic and scientific method → systematic treatment of social science methodology →
partOf	A System of Logic NERFINISHED →
philosophicalTradition	analytic philosophy precursor → empiricism →
positionInWork	concluding book of A System of Logic →
proposes	that methods of natural science can be adapted to moral sciences → that moral and social phenomena are subject to laws →
publicationYear	1843 →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
A System of Logic →	hasPart
Book VI: On the Logic of the Moral Sciences ("logic of the moral sciences") →	mainTopic
Book IV: Of Operations Subsidiary to Induction →	relatedWork