Social Statics
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Herbert Spencer
(5 Sterne; 4 Bewertungen)
Social Statics, or The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed is an 1851 book by the British polymath Herbert Spencer. In it, he uses the term "fitness" in applying his ideas of Lamarckian evolution to society, saying for example that "It is clear that any being whose constitution is to be moulded into fitness for new conditions of existence must be placed under those conditions. Or, putting the proposition specifically — it is clear that man can become adapted to the social state, only by being retained in the social state. This granted, it follows that as man has been, and is still, deficient in those feelings which, by dictating just conduct, prevent the perpetual antagonism of individuals and their consequent disunion, some artificial agency is required by which their union may be maintained. Only by the process of adaptation itself can be produced that character which makes social equilibrium spontaneous."
Despite its commonly being attributed to this book, it was not until his Principles of Biology of 1864 that Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest", which he would later apply to economics and biology. This was a key tenet of so-called Social Darwinism.
Economist Murray Rothbard called Social Statics "the greatest single work of libertarian political philosophy ever written. (Wikipedia) (17 hr 53 min)
Chapters
Preface and Introduction: The Doctrine of Expediency, The Doctrine of the Moral…
55:21
Read by Nesanel Bechhofer
Part 1, Chapter 3, The Divine Idea; and the Conditions of its Realization
15:09
Read by Gerwin Kramer
Part 2, Chapter 7, Application of this First Principle, Chapter 8, The Rights o…
5:28
Read by Nesanel Bechhofer
Part 2, Chapter 11, The Right of Property in Idea, Chapter 12, The Right of Pro…
29:18
Read by Lucretia B.
Part 2, Chapter 13, The Right of Exchange, Chapter 14, The Right of Free Speech…
23:04
Read by Lucretia B.
Bewertungen
well done.
Bravozulu
(5 Sterne)
well done. title page voice is odd, but the other volunteers sound good