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Spencer Herbert <1820-1903.> |
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Titolo |
The principles of ethics [[electronic resource] /] / Herbert Spencer ; introd. by Tibor R. Machan |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Indianapolis, : Liberty Classics, 1978 |
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ISBN |
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1-4619-3708-6 |
1-61487-861-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1135 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ethics |
Ethics, Evolutionary |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"This edition ... follows the text of the edition published in New York in 1897 by D. Appleton and Company." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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v. I, pt. I. The data of ethics ; pt. II. The inductions of ethics ; pt. III. The ethics of individual life -- v. II, pt. IV. The ethics of social life : justice ; pt. V. The ethics of social life : negative beneficence ; pt. VI. The ethics of social life : positive beneficence. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Though almost forgotten today, Herbert Spencer ranks as one of the foremost individualist philosophers. His influence in the latter half of the nineteenth century was immense. Spencer's name is usually linked with Darwin's, for it was he who penned the phrase, "survival of the fittest." Today in America he is most often admired for his trenchant essays in The Man Versus the State. But Spencer himself considered The Principles of Ethics to be his finest work. In the second volume, under "Justice," is his final statement on the role of the state. His formula for justice is summed up in these words: "Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." |
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