The Complete Works of Herbert Spencer: The Principles of Psychology, The Principles of Philosophy, First Principles and More (6 Books With Active Table of Contents) (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

This collection gathers together the works by Herbert Spencer in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! The Principles of Psychology The Principles of Philosophy First Principles, 2nd Edition Social Statics, or The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified and the First of Them Developed Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative, 3 Vols Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era. Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. He was "an enthusiastic exponent of evolution" and even "wrote about evolution before Darwin did." As a polymath, he contributed to a wide range of subjects, including ethics, religion, anthropology, economics, political theory, philosophy, biology, sociology, and psychology. During his lifetime he achieved tremendous authority, mainly in English-speaking academia. "The only other English philosopher to have achieved anything like such widespread popularity was Bertrand Russell, and that was in the 20th century." Spencer was "the single most famous European intellectual in the closing decades of the nineteenth century" but his influence declined sharply after 1900; "Who now reads Spencer?" asked Talcott Parsons in 1937. Spencer is best known for coining the concept "survival of the fittest", which he did in Principles of Biology (1864), after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. This term strongly suggests natural selection, yet as Spencer extended evolution into realms of sociology and ethics, he also made use of Lamarckism.