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Even though August Comte coined the term sociology, British social theorist Herbert Spencer was the first to write a comprehensive text on the subject.
Herbert Spencer was born in Derby, England on April 27, 1820. He was the first of seven children of William George Spencer and Harriet Homes Spencer, and the only one to survive infancy.
His father was a teacher and school master who has inherited a school from his father, Matthew Spencer.
The education that Spencer received from his father placed a heavy emphasis on empirical science.
This was reinforced by his experience of roaming the countryside where he collected specimens, acquired a tolerable knowledge of animal and insect life and taught himself how to sketch from nature.
When Herbert Spencer was seventeen one of his uncles secured a job for him as a civil engineer with a railway company in London.
Technical education and experience led him to see himself as a philosopher. His books sold more than 100,000 copies, even after most of them had been issued in serial form a various journal-like publications.
Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" in 1852. The concept of the survival of the fittest was later adopted by Darwin.
Survival of the fittest, meaning not the strongest but those best suited to a particular environment. This leads to the third point in Darwin’s scheme.
Spencer argued that the development of all aspects of the universe is evolutionary, including human character and social institutions, in according with principle of ‘survival of the fittest’
Among his books include:
*Social statistics (1850)
*The Principles of Psychology (1855)
*Essays 1858 -1874 (3 volumes)
*Education: Intellectual, Moral, Physical (1861)
*First Principles (1862)
*The Principles of Biology 1864-1867 (2 volumes)
He died on 8 December 1903.
Biography of Herbert Spencer
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Education
Biography of Herbert Spencer
Even though August Comte coined the term sociology, British social theorist Herbert Spencer was the first to write a comprehensive text on the subject.
Herbert Spencer was born in Derby, England on April 27, 1820. He was the first of seven children of William George Spencer and Harriet Homes Spencer, and the only one to survive infancy.
His father was a teacher and school master who has inherited a school from his father, Matthew Spencer.
The education that Spencer received from his father placed a heavy emphasis on empirical science.
This was reinforced by his experience of roaming the countryside where he collected specimens, acquired a tolerable knowledge of animal and insect life and taught himself how to sketch from nature.
When Herbert Spencer was seventeen one of his uncles secured a job for him as a civil engineer with a railway company in London.
Technical education and experience led him to see himself as a philosopher. His books sold more than 100,000 copies, even after most of them had been issued in serial form a various journal-like publications.
Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" in 1852. The concept of the survival of the fittest was later adopted by Darwin.
Survival of the fittest, meaning not the strongest but those best suited to a particular environment. This leads to the third point in Darwin’s scheme.
Spencer argued that the development of all aspects of the universe is evolutionary, including human character and social institutions, in according with principle of ‘survival of the fittest’
Among his books include:
*Social statistics (1850)
*The Principles of Psychology (1855)
*Essays 1858 -1874 (3 volumes)
*Education: Intellectual, Moral, Physical (1861)
*First Principles (1862)
*The Principles of Biology 1864-1867 (2 volumes)
He died on 8 December 1903.
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- Early History Of Artificial Intelligence
In the 800s BC, the Iliad described the winged Talos, a bronze automation forged by Hephaestus to protect Crete. Aristotle’s logic was developed and expanded on by later philosophers, mathematicians and logicians. The Aristotelian approach to logic...
- Who Was Charles Darwin (1809-1882)?
Charles Darwin took five years trip around the world on a ship called the Beagle, but he liked staying home best of all. Charles Robert Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, in Shrewsbury, a small village in England. He was the second son and fifth of...
- Adrian, Edgar Douglas
British neurologist and neurophysiologist, who established the ‘all-or-none’ character of the propagated nervous impulse earned him the Nobel Price for Physiology or Medicine in 1932. He was a pioneer in recording bioelectrical events in the nervous...
- Kalervo Oberg (1901 -1973)
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