herbertspencerbiography

Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist.

Spencer was born in Derby, England on 27 April 1820, the eldest of nine children, but the only one to survive infancy. He was the product of an ...

由 D Weinstein 著作 · 2002 · 被引用 60 次 — 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 ...

Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher, and a prominent liberal political and social theorist of the Victorian era.

Herbert Spencer made an impact on the doctrine of social Darwinism in sociology. He was one of the three sociologists who contributed to this theory. According ...

Herbert Spencer, (born April 27, 1820, Derby, Derbyshire, Eng.—died Dec. 8, 1903, Brighton, Sussex), English sociologist and philosopher, advocate of the ...

Herbert Spencer, English sociologist, philosopher, and early advocate of the theory of evolution. He advocated the preeminence of the individual over ...

Spencer adapted Charles Darwin's notion of natural selection and applied the theory to human society in a philosophy that became known as Social Darwinism. It ...

2020年4月29日 — Born in Derby in central England, Spencer was largely self-taught. He worked as a railway engineer and a journalist before making a name for ...

2019年1月13日 — Here's a biography of Herbert Spencer, a British sociologist who was one of the first to think of social life in terms of social systems.