Herbert Spencer

Tags: Philosopher.

Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher biologist anthropologist sociologist and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era.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.

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birth date

1820-04-27

birth place

England, Derbyshire, Derby

death date

1903-12-08

death place

England, Brighton, Sussex

era

19th-century philosophy

individualised GND number

118616080

influenced

Ayn Rand, Henri Bergson, Murray Rothbard, Auberon Herbert, William Graham Sumner, Émile Durkheim, Jack London, Tokutomi Sohō, Roderick T. Long, Henry Sidgwick, Yan Fu, Charles Darwin

influenced by

John Stuart Mill, Thomas Henry Huxley, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Auguste Comte, George Henry Lewes, Charles Darwin

main interest

Evolution, Positivism, Utilitarianism, Laissez-faire

notableIdea

Survival of the fittest, Social Darwinism

philosophicalSchool

Classical liberalism, Evolutionism, Positivism