Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics, with Some of their Applications. By William Thomas Thornton. London, Macmillan and co., 1873.
vii p., 2 l., 298 p. 22 cm.
A contemporary of John Stuart Mill, Thornton was a political economist and philosopher in his own right. According to Pickering & Chatto, who recently published a five-volume set of his works,
The writings of William Thornton (1813-1880) are central to the history of the laws of supply and demand and seminal in understanding the rise of neoclassical economics.
This book is one of his later ones — a group of essays on philosophical subjects. Some of his arguments are in poetical form.
The Contents include:
- Anti-Utilitarianism
- History’s Scientific Pretensions
- David Hume as a Metaphysician
- Huxleyism
- Recent Phases of Scientific Atheism
- Limits of Demonstrable Theism