The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c15.s1.1

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In Eur-America it has been the tradition of scholarship for historians of philosophy to devote attention to political, economic, social and legal speculations along with the speculations on man, nature, knowledge, mind, truth, beauty, good, God, etc. No account of Greek philosophy is held to be complete which overlooks the contributions of the Greek moralists or philosophers to political or social thought. Similarly in the studies relating to the beginnings of "modern" philosophy, say, the philosophy of Herder, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, etc. the politics, economics, jurisprudence and sociology of the thinkers in question and of their contemporaries are accorded an appropriate place. To mention a few works published in the nineteenth century, interest in political philosophy is manifest as much in Victor Cousin's *Histoire de la philosophie*, Lewes's *Biographical History of Philosophy*, and Zeller's *Geschichte der griechischen Philosophie* as in Leslie Stephen's *English Thought in the Nineteenth Century*, Merz's *History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century* and Lévy-Bruhl's *Histoire de la philosophie moderne en France*. And in treatises like Janet's *Histoire de la science politique dans ses relations avec la morale* or Bonar's *Philosophy and Political Economy* one can detect the attempts to bring economics and politics into contact with general philosophy.