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The inimitable Mr Spencer [Evolving Thoughts] |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 8:33 pm |
| Tags: evolution |
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I have a soft spot for Herbert Spencer [see also here]. Supposedly the founder of social Darwinism and the precursor to American libertarianism and justifier of the robber barons of the Gilded Age, he has been the whipping boy of progressives and anti-evolutionists alike. Ever since Richard Hofstadter fingered him as the source of rough individualism and eugenics in his Social Darwinism in American Thought in 1943, Spencer has been the evil demon of philosophy, political thought, and evolution. But a recent article in The New Yorker occasioned by a new book Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life (Mark Francis), goes some way to rejuvenating his ideas. Read the rest of this post... Read the comments on this post... [ Full article ] |
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