Herbert Spencer
English philosopher and psychologist
Herbert Spencer was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in Principles of Biology after reading Charles... Wikipedia
Born: April 27, 1820, Derby, United Kingdom
Died: December 8, 1903 (age 83 years), Brighton, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom
Influenced by: Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, and more
School: Classical liberalism
Parents: William George Spencer and Harriet Spencer
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Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist.
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British philosopher and sociologist, Herbert Spencer was a major figure in the intellectual life of the Victorian era. He was one of the principal ...
Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era.
Dec 15, 2002 · Spencer was a sociologist in part. But he was even more a moral philosopher. He was what we now refer to as a liberal utilitarian first who ...
Apr 29, 2020 · Weinstein says Spencer advocated the idea that “those who survive the struggle are by definition not only the fittest but also morally the best.
Mar 5, 2024 · Spencer attempted to express in a general sweeping formula the belief in progress which dominated his age, and to erect it into a supreme law of ...
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was one of the leading 19th century English radical individualists. He began working as a journalist for the laissez-faire ...
Believing that the religious impulse would survive the decay of revealed religion, he projected a worship of mankind, with churches, calendar, and hierarchy.
SPENCER, HERBERT (1820–1903), philosopher, was born in Derby on 27 April 1820. The Spencer family had been settled for several centuries in the parish of ...