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Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English philosopher, best known for his scientific writings. Together with Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley he was responsible for the acceptance of the theory of evolution. His well-known essay on Education: Intellectual, Moral and Physical was considered one of the most useful and profound books written on education. He projected a vast 10-volume work, Synthetic Philosophy, in which all phenomena are interpreted according to the principle of evolutionary progress. Together with Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley he was responsible for the acceptance of the theory of evolution. Although no longer influential in biology, his extension of his theory of evolution to psychology and sociology remains important. His "Social Darwinism" was particularly influential on early evolutionary economists such as Thorstein Veblen. As subeditor of the Economist (1843-53), Spencer was an influential exponent of laissez-faire. His early book Social Statics (1851) was strongly tinged with an individualistic outlook. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Preface
Part VI. Ecclesiastical Institutions
Part VII. Professional Institutions
Part VIII. Industrial Institutions.
References
List of Works Referred To
Subject-Index
This is an amazingly good book. Note, however, that this volume -- the third of the work -- contains a duplicate of one section previously found in an earlier edition of Volume II. This is the result of the work not being complete, in one sense: several sections that had been planned were never executed. Spencer had, I believe, intended to include a section on language, a section on ethics (distinct from his "Principles of Ethics," mind you), and perhaps also a section on the arts. Spencer got old, and those works were never written.
What we have is an amazing treatise nonetheless. Of especial concern to many are some of Spencer's thoughts about socialism and trade unions, included at the end of the last section. Though controversial at the time, and anathema a generation later, Spencer's skepticism about the ideology of socialism, and about what unions could do without harming others, proved to be on target. (