Author: Herbert SpencerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays Not Before Republished, and Various Other Additions
Author: Herbert SpencerEssays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 1 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays Not Before Republished, and Various Other Additions
Author: Herbert SpencerEssays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 2 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays Not Before Republished, and Various Other Additions
Author: Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer, Collected Writings: Essays : sceintific, political and speculative (3 v.)
Author: Herbert SpencerPublisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion
Author: Radek KundtPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474232272
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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Radek Kundt compares the notion of evolution in cultural evolutionary theories with neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory to determine the value of the biological concept for studying culture. Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion surveys the historical background of cultural evolution as used in the study of religion, pinpointing major objections to classical nineteenth-century theories. Radek Kundt argues that contemporary theories of cultural evolution do not repeat the same mistakes but that when they are evaluated in terms of fitting the core requirements of neo-Darwinian natural selection, it is clear that they are not legitimate extensions of neo-Darwinian theory. Rather, they are poor metaphors and misleading analogies which add little to conventional cause-and-effect historiographical work. This book also introduces an alternative evolutionary approach to the study of culture which does not claim that the principles of neo-Darwinian evolution should be applicable outside the biological domain. Radek Kundt shows that this alternative evolutionary approach nevertheless provides a deeply enriching line of enquiry that incorporates both biological evolutionary history as shaping cultural change and culture as a force acting on the gene.
The Political Philosophy of the British Idealists
Author: Peter P. NicholsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521371025
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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This book offers a reassessment of the political philosophy of the British Idealists, a group of once influential and now neglected nineteenth-century Hegelian philosophers, whose work has been much misunderstood. Peter Nicholson focuses on F. H. Bradley's idea of morality and moral philosophy; T. H. Green's theory of the Common Good, of the social nature of rights, of freedom, and of state interference; and Bernard Bosanquet's notorious theory of the General Will. By examining the arguments offered by the Idealists and by their critics the author is able to penetrate the deep layers of hostile comment laid down by several generations of later writers and to show that these ideas, once properly understood, are not only defensible but interesting and important.
The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy
Author: Gerald F. GausPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415874564
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 869
Book Description
This comprehensive work provides an up-to-date survey of social and political philosophy, charting its history and key figures and movements, and addressing enduring questions as well as contemporary research.
The Metaphysics of Self-realisation and Freedom
Author: Colin TylerPublisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1845405692
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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This first part of Colin Tyler's new critical assessment of the social and political thought of T.H. Green (1836–1882) explores the grounding that Green gives to liberal socialism. Tyler shows how, for Green, ultimately, personal self-realisation and freedom stem from the innate human drive to construct a bedrock of fundamental values and commitments that can define and give direction to the individual's most valuable potentials and talents. This book is not only a significant contribution to British idealist scholarship. It highlights also the enduring philosophical and ethical resources of a social democratic tradition that remains one of the world’s most important social and political movements, and not least across Britain, Europe, North America, India and Australia. Dr Colin Tyler is Reader in Politics at the University of Hull and joint convenor of the Centre for British Idealism.
Herbert Spencer, Collected Writings: Essays : sceintific, political and speculative (3 v.)
Author: Herbert SpencerPublisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Catalogue of the General Assembly Library of New Zealand
Author: New Zealand. Parliament. LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 546
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