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Basic Principles

Basic Principles

Authors: Герберт Спенсер

Output data: Нью-Йорк, 1895 г.

Inventory data: inventory № 41486

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Herbert Spencer - English philosopher and sociologist, one of the founders of evolutionism, whose ideas were very popular at the end of the nineteenth century, founder of the organic School in sociology, ideologist of liberalism and is the author of the books “Social Book”, “Principles of Psychology”, “Essays: Scientific, Political and speculative”, “Education", etc. The key to his system of unified science is the work "Basic Principles", in the first chapters of which it is stated that we cannot know anything about the latter reality. This "unknowable" goes beyond the limits of scientific research, and religion simply uses a metaphor to somehow imagine it and be able to worship this "thing in itself". The second part of the work presents the cosmic theory of evolution (the theory of progress), which Spencer considers to be a universal principle underlying all fields of knowledge and summarizing them.

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