Philosophical Views
- He was a firm adherent of Auguste Comte.
- He was also a Positivist, also a Comtean idea.
- Ingram was very much influenced by the German Historical School and, as such, an opponent of the materialism, ideology, and scientism - the view that natural science has authority over all other interpretations of life and over other fields of inquiry, including the social sciences.
The leading members of the English historical school of economics were William Ashley, Walter Bagehot, William Cunningham, William Hewins, John Kells Ingram, Richard Jones, Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie, Langford Lovell Price, Thorold Rogers, Arnold Toynbee and William Whewell.
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