1. Herbert Spencer Herbert Spencer. Herbert Spencer (18201903) is typically, though quite wrongly, considered a coarse social Review of Books, April 4, 2002. Spencer, Herbert, An Autobiography, 2 vols http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spencer

version history HOW TO CITE THIS ENTRY Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A B C D ... Z This document uses XHTML-1/Unicode to format the display. Older browsers and/or operating systems may not display the formatting correctly. last substantive content change DEC Herbert Spencer Principia Ethica (1903) that Spencer committed the naturalistic fallacy. According to Moore, Spencer's practical reasoning was deeply flawed insofar as he purportedly conflated mere survivability (a natural property)with goodness itself (a non-natural property). Roughly fifty years later, Richard Hofstadter devoted an entire chapter of Social Darwinism in American Thought Spencer's reputation has never fully recovered from Moore and Hofstadter's interpretative caricatures, thus marginalizing him to the hinterlands of intellectual history, though recent scholarship has begun restoring and repairing his legacy. Happily, in rehabilitating him, some scholars have begun to appreciate just how fundamentally utilitarian his practical reasoning was. Like J. S. Mill, Spencer struggled to make utilitarianism authentically liberal by infusing it with a demanding principle of liberty and robust moral rights. He was convinced, like Mill, that utilitarianism could accommodate rights with independent moral force and yet remain genuinely consequentialist. Subtly construed, utilitarianism can effectively mimick the very best deontological liberalism.

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3. Economics 3LL3 -- Spencer Herbert Spencer. April 27, 1820 December 8, 1903. Published Works. http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/spencer/

Herbert Spencer April 27, 1820 - December 8, 1903 Published Works Man Versus State First Principles

4. Herbert Spencer Herbert Spencer. (18201903). Every man. Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Ethics, Part IV, ch. 6, The Formula of Justice. NOTE http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6181/spencer.htm

Herbert Spencer "Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Ethics, Part IV, ch. 6, The Formula of Justice. NOTE: In the real world, whether in nature or in society, every man is not free to do that which he wills even provided he infringes not he equal freedom of any other man. That's just the way things are in the real world. Equal freedom is not an aspect nature or even of society as it is in reality, resembling nature with respect to force and deception differing only in that the animals involved are of the human species, but of society as it ought to be in the opinion Herbert Spencer. The Law of Equal Freedom is not a natural law but a moral law. Published Works The Man Versus The State First Principles This page hosted by Get your own Free Home Page golwis@yahoo.com

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Sites Atrium Section Philosophie Grands Philosophes Spencer Herbert : Eléments biographiques S pencer est le créateur d’un système de philosophie évolutionniste qui a eu une très grande influence sur de nombreux savants et philosophes de la seconde moitié du dix-neuvième siècle et du début du vingtième. Selon cet auteur, l a totalité des phénomènes physiques, biologiques, psychologiques et sociaux évoluent dans le sens d’un passage de l’homogène à l’hétérogène et du simple au complexe . C’est pour le démontrer qu’il s’engagera dans la vaste entreprise d’exposer de manière systématique, et en suivant l’ordre de complexité des phénomènes, les faits alors connus concernant la réalité physique, ainsi que les réalités biologiques, psychologiques et sociales qui en dérivent.

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Cheap Web Site Hosting Web Hosting Herbert Spencer Home Auguste Comte Emile Durkheim Harriet Martineau ... Sociology Links Herbert Spencer was born in 1820 during the period of British industrialism. One of the main reasons that Herbert Spencer was important to sociology was because of his views and ideas about evolution. Charles Darwin is always given credit for the idea of survival of the fittest, but most likely it was Spencer who coined this phrase. This phrase was almost always used to explain part of science, but in Spencer's work it took on some political meaning as well. Spencer had many very extreme political views and grew to despise government programs that were aimed to help the poor. In the end it was his harsh views on politics that held his ideas back from being accepted right away. Writings such as Principles of Sociology and others were set-aside for years. Spencer was like Darwin in some ways, but when it came down to the theory of evolution, Spencer took it one step further than Darwin by saying that it involved much more that just biology. Herbert Spencer was born in 1820 during the period of British industrialism. One of the main reasons that Herbert Spencer was important to sociology was because of his views and ideas about evolution. Charles Darwin is always given credit for the idea of survival of the fittest, but most likely it was Spencer who coined this phrase. This phrase was almost always used to explain part of science, but in Spencer's work it took on some political meaning as well. Spencer had many very extreme political views and grew to despise government programs that were aimed to help the poor. In the end it was his harsh views on politics that held his ideas back from being accepted right away. Writings such as Principles of Sociology and others were set-aside for years. Spencer was like Darwin in some ways, but when it came down to the theory of evolution, Spencer took it one step further than Darwin by saying that it involved much more that just biology.

10. Herbert Spencer Herbert Spencer, 18201903. The Victorian biologist and early social philosopher Herbert Spencer was a great rival of Charles Darwin s. http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/spencer.htm

Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903. The Victorian biologist and early social philosopher Herbert Spencer was a great rival of Charles Darwin's . His theory of evolution preceded Darwin's own, but was soon overshadowed because of the absence of an effective theory of natural selection - although it was Spencer, and not Darwin, who popularized the term "evolution" itself and coined the now-ubiquitous phrase, "survival of the fittest". 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 , but, more contemporaneously, it was adopted with gusto by American apologists such as William Graham Sumner and Simon Nelson Patten Spencer's own thinking was derived in part from the socio-philosophical counterpart of English Romanticist thought - perhaps best exemplified in the work of William Godwin , Thomas Malthus , Thomas Lamarck and von Baer. From the Romanticists, Spencer borrowed the concept of the interrelationship between an "evolving" aggregate and its constituent parts. As an aggregate history progresses, greater specialization and hence diversity is "created" by the Lamarckian adaptation of individual physical and behavioral characteristics to environmental circumstances. Thus, although diversity increases, not all diversity survives in that characteristics and habits that were poorly adapted to the circumstances will disappear. In Spencer's view, evolution is actually a progressive movement towards an "equilibrium" where individual beings change their characteristics and habits until they are perfectly adapted to circumstances and no more change is called for. Thus, Spencer's evolutionary mechanism is not only ultimately cumulant (i.e. it ends), but he also draped it in

11. Spencer, The Man Versus The State, With Six Essays On Government, Society, And F Author Spencer, Herbert (18201903). Title The Man Versus The State, with Six Essays on Government, Society, and Freedom. Herbert spencer herbert Spencer. http://www.econlib.org/library/LFBooks/Spencer/spnMvS0.html

Author: Spencer, Herbert Title: The Man Versus The State, with Six Essays on Government, Society, and Freedom Publisher: Liberty Fund, Inc. Publication Date: First published: Herbert Spencer Advanced Search PUBLISHER'S NOTE The Man Versus The State by Herbert Spencer was originally published in 1884 by Williams and Norgate, London and Edinburgh. The book consisted of four articles which had been published in Contemporary Review for February, April, May, June, and July of 1884. For collection in book form, Spencer added a Preface and a Postscript. In 1892 the book was reissued with the addition of a few notes in reply to criticism of the first edition. Pub.1 This Liberty Fund edition contains the entire text of the 1892 edition. The Man Versus The State was maintained in print for many years in various editions. In 1892 an edition was issued in the United States by D. Appleton and Company. In 1940 one was issued in Great Britain as part of The Thinker's Library. Pub.2 Two editions have circulated in the United States in the last forty years. In 1940 Caxton Printers, Ltd., of Caldwell, Idaho, issued an edition with an Introduction by Albert Jay Nock. In this edition, two more essays, "Over-Legislation" and "From Freedom to Bondage," were added to the original four. Pub.3

12. Herbert Spencer Herbert Spencer. 1820 – 1903. Herbert Spencer was a British philosopher, born in Derby on April 27, 1820. His father was a http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/pqrst/spencer_herbert.html

Herbert Spencer Herbert Spencer was a British philosopher, born in Derby on April 27, 1820. His father was a school teacher and Herbert was the only child of his parents to live beyond early childhood. His early interests were science, natural history, physics and chemistry. At the age of 16, he completed his formal education and was an Assistant Schoolmaster. Later he became a railroad engineer working for nine years for the London and Birmingham Railway. He gained a reputation as a philosopher, but later scientists proved many of his theories wrong. In 1852, Herbert Spencer wrote an article defending the theory of biological evolution, a full seven years before Charles Darwin published Origin of Species . His view of evolution encompassed all of nature, the biological model being the basis for understanding the social model. It was Spencer who first used such terms as "system," "function," and "structure." He is noted for his attempt to work out a philosophy based on scientific discoveries of his day, which could be applied to all subjects. In Programme of a System of Synthetic Philosophy (1862 – 1896), he applied his fundamental law, the idea of evolution (gradual development) to biology, psychology, sociology, and other fields.

13. Herbert Spencer - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Herbert Spencer. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Herbert Spencer should not be confused with Edmund Spenser, the British poet. External links. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Spencer

Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Page history ... Printable version Not logged in Log in Help Other languages: Deutsch Polski Herbert Spencer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Herbert Spencer 27 April 8 December ) was an English philosopher He was born in Derby . Educated mostly at home, Spencer worked first as a railways civil engineer beginning at age 16, writing in his spare time. In , Spencer became a sub-editor on The Economist , then as now an important financial newspaper. From that time onwards, he was a professional writer. In Spencer published The Developmental Hypothesis , and in produced Principles of Psychology . Spencer published a number of such works devoted to different domains, including Principles of Sociology and Principles of Ethics. They included, among other things, his ideas on evolution , which he saw as leading to an era of greater interpersonal cooperation. Spencer is seen by some as the originator of , although his theories were sharply at odds with some of what is commonly understood by that term. Furthermore, Spencer's major works predated those of Charles Darwin . Spencer's book First Principles is an exposition of the evolutionary principles underlying all domains of reality.

14. Herbert Spencer Herbert Spencer. Development of Sociological Theory. Sociology 1400. UMD. Life and Times (18201903) I. THE PERSON A. BORN APRIL 27, 1820 http://www.d.umn.edu/~jhamlin1/spencer.html

Herbert Spencer Development of Sociological Theory Sociology 1400 UMD "EVOLUTION IS AN INTEGRATION OF MATTER AND CONCOMITANT DISSIPATION OF MOTION; DURING WHICH MATTER PASSES FROM AN INDEFINITE, INCOHERENT HOMOGENEITY TO A DEFINITE, COHERENT HETEROGENEITY; AND DURING WHICH THE RETAINED MOTION UNDERGOES A PARALLEL TRANSFORMATION." Return to the Development of Sociological Theory Page. Return to John Hamlin's Home page. This page is maintained by John Hamlin ( jhamlin@mail.d.umn.edu HTML Notepad Last modified on Fri Mar 01

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16. Herbert Spencer Herbert Spencer. 18201903. Assignment 2 Explain the relationships among growth, structure and differentiation. Sources Spencer, Herbert. 1904. http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/TheoryWeb/Spencer.htm

Herbert Spencer Assignment # 2 Explain the relationships among growth, structure and differentiation. What impact does growth and differentiation have on government? Compare and contrast "militant" and "industrial" societies. What are the reasons behind Spencer's "noninterventionist" position? What are Spencer's views on social evolution? Link: Herbert Spencer Spencer and "Social Darwinism" Some short takes: In contrast to Comte, Spencer's evolutionary scheme begins with material conditions rather than ideas. . . Like Comte, Spencer is greatly underestimated by many contemporary sociologists. . . .I particularly like Spencer's insights on the growth of administration as a consequence of the increasing division of labor, and the centralization of authority when the system is threatened. . . . His evolutionary theory (which was not merely derived from Darwin) is very subtle, it is not unilinear as many critics claim. . . .Spencer advocated functional analysis as well as an evolutionary focus. . . .You do not have to subscribe to his political position of "non-interventionism" to appreciate his social analysis. In his own words: On materialism "What is Comte's professed aim? To give a coherent account of the progress of human conceptions. What is my aim? To give a coherent account of the progress of the external world. Comte proposes to describe the necessary and the actual, filiation of ideas. I propose to describe the necessary, and the actual, filiation of things. Comte professes to interpret the genesis of our knowledge of nature. My aim is to interpret . . . the genesis of the phenomena which constitute nature. The one is subjective. The other is objective" (1904, p.570).

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Home philosophy philosophers s : spencer-herbert the entire directory only this category More search options Home Search Suggest a Site ... About The Artist Categories: Works Home philosophy philosophers ... s : spencer-herbert Links: Herbert Spencer Herbert Spencer An extensive online biography of this Victorian thinker. In sequential pages. (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 115479 Herbert Spencer: Social Darwinism in Education Herbert Spencer: Social Darwinism in Education A short article by Robert Barger, considering Spencer's legacy as a philosopher of education. (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 115478 Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Herbert Spencer Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Herbert Spencer Biographical information and an explanation of his philosophy. By William Sweet. (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 115470 Liberty Haven: Herbert Spencer Liberty Haven: Herbert Spencer A variety of articles about the philosopher. (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 115480 Photo of Herbert Spencer Photo of Herbert Spencer A picture of the philosopher, dated to circa 1896. From the Wisconsin Historical Society Visual Materials Archive. (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 115472 Reflections Upon the Sociology of Herbert Spencer Reflections Upon the Sociology of Herbert Spencer Classic 1920 article by Charles Horton Cooley. Sympathetically reviews Spencer's influence.

18. American History 102 Image Gallery: Spencer, Herbert A picture of the philosopher, dated to circa 1896. From the Wisconsin Historical Society Visual Materials Archive. http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/photos/html/1052.html

American History 102 Photo Gallery Previous Index Next SHSW Location: Name File: "Spencer" Notes: Modifications: The image is approximately 1/4 size original. Drop shadow border added; colors reduced to sixteen grays. For more information or to obtain rights for this image, contact the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Visual Materials Archive at (608) 264-6470. Name: Spencer, Herbert Subject: Intellectuals c. 1896 Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), English philosopher Home Course Guide Bios ... Comments/Sign-in

19. Herbert Spencer [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy] Biographical information and an explanation of his philosophy. By William Sweet. http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/s/spencer.htm

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) British philosopher and sociologist, Herbert Spencer was a major figure in the intellectual life of the Victorian era. He was one of the principal proponents of evolutionary theory in the mid nineteenth century, and his reputation at the time rivaled that of Charles Darwin. Spencer was initially best known for developing and applying evolutionary theory to philosophy, psychology and the study of society what he called his "synthetic philosophy" (see his A System of Synthetic Philosophy , 1862-93). Today, however, he is usually remembered in philosophical circles for his political thought, primarily for his defense of natural rights and for criticisms of utilitarian positivism, and his views have been invoked by 'libertarian' thinkers such as Robert Nozick. Table of Contents (Clicking on the links below will take you to that part of this article) Life Method Human Nature Religion ... Bibliography Life Spencer was born in Derby, England on 27 April 1820, the eldest of nine children, but the only one to survive infancy. He was the product of an undisciplined, largely informal education. His father, George, was a school teacher, but an unconventional man, and Spencer's family were Methodist 'Dissenters,' with Quaker sympathies. From an early age, Herbert was strongly influenced by the individualism and the anti-establishment and anti-clerical views of his father, and the Benthamite radical views of his uncle Thomas. Indeed, Spencer's early years showed a good deal of resistance to authority and independence.

20. Herbert Spencer When people hear the phrase "survival of the fittest" they are likely to think of the great biologist Charles Darwin. The phrase in fact appears to have been coined by a contemporary of Darwin's, the http://www2.truman.edu/~rgraber/cultev/spencer.html

When people hear the phrase "survival of the fittest" they are likely to think of the great biologist Charles Darwin. The phrase in fact appears to have been coined by a contemporary of Darwin's, the philosopher Herbert Spencer. Spencer thought of evolution as involving much more than biology. For him, evolution pervaded the inorganic as well as the organic realm. His voluminous work also treated "superorganic evolution" (which we today would term social evolution), and evolution of "superorganic products" (what we call cultural evolution). Much as cells combine to make up organisms, organisms themselves combine, in some species, to make up "superorganisms," or societies. The comparison of societies to organisms has roots in ancient Greece, but Spencer elaborated this idea in greater detail than anybody else before or since. He emphasized three developmental tendencies shared by societies and organisms: (1) growth in size, (2) increasing complexity of structure, and (3) differentiation of function. Generally speaking, larger life forms, unlike smaller ones, have several types of tissues and organs, each suited to perform its special function; similarly, larger societies, unlike smaller ones, have specialized arrangements for performing different functions. Examples include factories, stores, schools, and churches; less concrete arrangements such as economic and political systems; the occupational division of labor; and the division of society into rich and poor, powerful and powerless.

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