Herbert Spencer on the Survival of the Fittest

Spencer originated the expression survival of the fittest, which he coined in Principles of Biology (1864) after reading Charles Darwin's 1859 book On the ...

Survival of the fittest is a phrase that originated from Darwinian evolutionary theory as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection.

Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) was an English philosopher who initiated a philosophy called 'Social Darwinism'. He coined the term 'survival of the fittest' ...

2024年4月23日 — He is best remembered for his doctrine of social Darwinism, according to which the principles of evolution, including natural selection, apply ...

2024年3月14日 — Darwin borrowed the term from English sociologist and philosopher Herbert Spencer, who first used it in his 1864 book Principles of Biology. ( ...

由 IW Howerth 著作 · 1917 · 被引用 24 次 — I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Herbert. Spencer's excellent expression the survival of the fittest . . . it is how- ever a great ...

Spencer held that the poor were the unfit who would not survive; Carnegie, however, believed that the poor (such as himself) were often the ones who grew up to ...

2020年4月29日 — Weinstein says Spencer advocated the idea that “those who survive the struggle are by definition not only the fittest but also morally the best.