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First Principles
In the book First Principles, Herbert argues that three laws given the universe, Law of the Instability of the Homogeneous, Law of the Persistence of Force and the Law of the Multiplicity of Effects. Where the universe was initially homogeneous, it’s gradually becoming more heterogeneous because Force of Energy expands un-uniformly, homogeneity is also unstable because Force is variable and unstable and Law of the Multiplicity of Effects makes heterogeneous consequences grow exponentially.
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English anthropologist and philosopher born in Derby, England. Who became a prominent liberal political theorist during the Victorian Era.He made significant contributions in the field of anthropology, economics, political theory and other science fields.
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English anthropologist and philosopher born in Derby, England. Who became a prominent liberal political theorist during the Victorian Era.He made significant contributions in the field of anthropology, economics, political theory and other science fields.
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Herbert Spencer
1,635 books252 followersHerbert Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, 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, literature, 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 expression "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.
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, literature, 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 expression "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.
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