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Autore |
Spencer Herbert |
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Titolo |
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects [[electronic resource]] |
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Auckland, : The Floating Press, 1911 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (648 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Education -- Philosophy |
Education |
Philosophy |
Spencer, Herbert -- Philosophy |
Spencer, Herbert |
Social Sciences |
History of Education |
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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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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title; Contents; Herbert Spencer; Introduction; Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical; PART I ON EDUCATION; What Knowledge is of Most Worth?; Intellectual Education; Moral Education; Physical Education; PART II ESSAYS ON KINDRED SUBJECTS; Progress: Its Law and Cause; On Manners and Fashion; On the Genesis of Science; On the Physiology of Laughter; On the Origin and Function of Music; Endnotes |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, prominent classical liberal political theorist, and sociological theorist of the Victorian era. The four essays on education which Herbert Spencer published in a single volume in 1861 were all written and separately published between 1854 and 1859. Their tone was aggressive and their proposals revolutionary; although all the doctrines - with one important exception - had already been vigorously preached by earlier writers on education... |
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