SOCIAL MECHANICS: FROM LEIBNIZ TO PARETO
SOCIAL MECHANICS: FROM LEIBNIZ TO PARETO

Author(s): Vincenzo Cioci, Antonino Drago
Subject(s): History, Social Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, History and theory of sociology
Published by: Scientia Socialis, UAB
Keywords: Mechanical laws as social laws; Leibniz; Lazare Carnot; Haret; Pareto; Ophelimity;
Summary/Abstract: This work suggests in a parallel way to mechanical laws a series of social laws concerning the social conflict; a high level of development of this subject is recognised by collecting several contributions. The first laws derive from the social meaning that Leibniz attributed to the impact of elastic bodies. Later, the great strategist Lazare Carnot who compared the defence of strongholds and mechanical machines suggested some more laws. In 1910 Spiru Haret (1851–1912) wrote Mécanique sociale (Haret 1910) a handbook on these laws and Pareto tried to formalise the individual’s behaviour inside a market through the principleof virtual displacements.

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