Author: Herbert SpencerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A Theory of Population deduced from the general law of Animal Fertility. Republished from the Westminster Review
Author: Herbert SpencerA theory of population, deduced from the general law of animal fertility. Republ. from The Westm. review
Author: Herbert SpencerWas Hitler a Darwinian?
Author: Robert J. RichardsPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022605909X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In tracing the history of Darwin’s accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most scholars agree that Darwin introduced blind mechanism into biology, thus banishing moral values from the understanding of nature. According to the standard interpretation, the principle of survival of the fittest has rendered human behavior, including moral behavior, ultimately selfish. Few doubt that Darwinian theory, especially as construed by the master’s German disciple, Ernst Haeckel, inspired Hitler and led to Nazi atrocities. In this collection of essays, Robert J. Richards argues that this orthodox view is wrongheaded. A close historical examination reveals that Darwin, in more traditional fashion, constructed nature with a moral spine and provided it with a goal: man as a moral creature. The book takes up many other topics—including the character of Darwin’s chief principles of natural selection and divergence, his dispute with Alfred Russel Wallace over man’s big brain, the role of language in human development, his relationship to Herbert Spencer, how much his views had in common with Haeckel’s, and the general problem of progress in evolution. Moreover, Richards takes a forceful stand on the timely issue of whether Darwin is to blame for Hitler’s atrocities. Was Hitler a Darwinian? is intellectual history at its boldest.
The Synthetic Philosophy of Herbert Spencer: Principles of biology
Author: Herbert SpencerAn Autobiography : Herbert Spencer
Author: Herbert SpencerMalthus
Author: Robert J. MayhewPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674728718
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Though Robert Malthus has never disappeared, he has been perpetually misunderstood. Robert Mayhew offers at once a major reassessment of Malthus’s ideas and an intellectual history of the origins of modern debates about demography, resources, and the environment, giving historical depth to our current planetary concerns.
The Declining Birth-rate
Author: Sir Arthur NewsholmePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought
Author: Gábor BíróPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000476960
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy argues that organic elements seen as incompatible with rational homo economicus have been left out of, or downplayed in, mainstream histories of economic thought. The chapters show that organic aspects (that is, aspects related to sensitive, cognitive or social human qualities) were present in the economic ideas of a wide range of important thinkers including Hume, Smith, Malthus, Mill, Marshall, Keynes, Hayek and the Polanyi brothers. Moreover, the contributors to this thought-provoking volume reveal in turn that these aspects were crucial to how these key figures thought about the economy. This stimulating collection of essays will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of the history of economic thought, economic philosophy, heterodox economics, moral philosophy and intellectual history.
Herbert Spencer
Author: John OfferPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415181853
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
This set traces Herbert Spencer's influence, from his contemporaries to the present day. Contributions come from across the social science disciplines and are often taken from sources which are difficult to access.
Author: Portia Young