Spencer, Herbert
SPENCER, HERBERT (1820–1903), was an English philosopher who became the most influential exponent of social evolutionism. Born in Derby, England, and educated largely in an atm...
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Herbert Spencer
1820-1903
English philosopher, psychologist, and sociologist who synthesized the social and natural sciences into the framework of nineteenth-century evolutionary thought. By asserting...
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Spencer, Herbert
British philosopher and sociologist, Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) was born in Derby, England, on April 27, and became well known for developing and applying evolutionary theory ...
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Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English philosopher, scientist, engineer, and political economist. In his day his works were important in popularizing the concept of evolution and played an importa...
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In the 1860s and 1870s Herbert Spencer was the foremost living English philosopher. But he was so speculative that by 1880 in England his works rivaled those of Charles Darwin or John Stuart Mill only...
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Herbert Spencer is chiefly remembered as an evolutionary philosopher, as one of the founders of sociology, and as a defender of a libertarian version of classical liberalism. He described the evolutio...
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Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, scientist, engineer, and political economist. In his day his works were important in popularizing the concept of evolution and played an important part in t...
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Herbert Spencer made many astute assessments of the way societies work. He created theories to explain the way they grow and change and interact with one another. Spencer viewed society as an organi...
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