The Right to ignore the State E-Book

Herbert Spencer

• Herausgeber: Edizioni Aurora Boreale
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist.
Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. As a polymath, he contributed to a wide range of subjects, including ethics, religion, anthropology, economics, political theory, philosophy, literature, astronomy, biology, sociology, and psychology.
Herbert Spencer’s short essay The Right to ignore the State was originally born as one of the chapters of the original edition of Social Statics, a work written and published by the English philosopher in 1850. It was then omitted by the author from the revised edition, published in 1892. It was then republished separately, as a pamphlet, in London in 1913.
We can legitimately deduce that this omission indicates a change of opinion. But repudiation is not response, and Spencer never responded to his arguments for The Right to ignore the State. Even many anarchists believe these arguments are unanswerable.

Leseprobe

SYMBOLS & MYTHS

HERBERT SPENCER

THE RIGHT TO IGNORE THE STATE

Edizioni Aurora Boreale

Title: The Right to ignore the State

Author: Herbert Spencer

Publishing series: Symbols & Myths

With an introduction by Boris Yousef

Editing by Nicola Bizzi

ISBN: 979-12-5504-576-2

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INTRODUCTION BY THE PUBLISHER

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist. Spencer originated the expression “survival of the fittest”, which he coined in Principles of Biology (1864) after reading Charles Darwin’s 1859 essay On the Origin of Species. The term strongly suggests natural selection, yet Spencer saw evolution as extending into realms of sociology and ethics, so he also supported Lamarckism.

Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. As a polymath, he contributed to a wide range of subjects, including ethics, religion, anthropology, economics, political theory, philosophy, literature, astronomy, biology, sociology, and psychology. During his lifetime he achieved tremendous authority, mainly in English-speaking academia.

Spencer was born in Derby, England, on April 27 1820, the son of William George Spencer, a religious dissenter who drifted from Methodism to Quakerism, and who seems to have transmitted to his son an opposition to all forms of authority. He ran a school founded on the progressive teaching methods of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and also served as Secretary of the Derby Philosophical Society, a scientific society which had been founded in 1783 by Erasmus Darwin, the grandfather of Charles Darwin.