It identifies contractual concepts, principles, rules, doctrines, methods of reasoning and commercial practices that have contributed most to mankind's economic development.
I have learned a great deal about the evolution of nations, political systems, social doctrines, methods of conquest, persecution, and extermination, and I know, too, that never in the history of mankind, never anywhere in the realm of human relations did anything occur to compare with what was inflicted on the Jewish population of Poland.
This is because Brendel does not represent, or obey, a single doctrine, or method, or tendency or idea.
Some historians and sociologists of science maintained that choices of doctrine and method are always open in the course of scientific practice.
This tempts them to embrace some doctrine or method that claims to yield incontrovertible conclusions rather than merely likely ones.
This leads to the third problem, whether there are major inconsistencies of doctrine or method in the Politics.
It also points towards the Kantian view, later emphasized in the Transcendental Doctrine of Method, that reason's theoretical and practical interests ultimately form a higher unity.
He expands on the point in the first Critique's Doctrine of Method, in the section entitled, "The Discipline of Pure Reason"; cf. Bx ff.
The mind also appears a few times in the Doctrine of Method, particularly in a couple of glosses of the attack mounted against the Paralogisms.
By contrast, the name of Hume does not appear in either the Introduction or the Transcendental Analytic in the first (A) edition (1781): it appears only in the Transcendental Doctrine of Method at the very end of the book, in a discussion of "skepticism" versus "dogmatism" in metaphysics (where Hume's skepticism about causation, in particular, is finally explicitly discussed).
