"Social Darwinism, a popular topic in the 19th and early 20th centuries,” reported the Associated Press on April 5, ... But let us start with Herbert Spencer, ...

Social Darwinism was the intellectual vogue of early 19th century sociology. The movement, led by Herbert Spencer, who coined the term, “survival of the fittest.” purported to apply Darwinian ...

Herbert Spencer, the 19th-century British philosopher, is remembered today as the forbidding -- almost forbidden -- father of "Social Darwinism," a school of thought declaring that the fittest ...

Evolutionist: In the Calendar section on Jan. 11, a photo caption with the review of the book “Banquet at Delmonico’s” mentioned Charles Darwin and his fellow evolutionist, Herbert Spencer ...

Tamanaha also notes that Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest," which he offers as further proof of Spencer's cold-hearted Social Darwinism. While it's true that Herbert Spencer was ...

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The most famous philosopher of the Victorian age, Herbert Spencer, coined the term "survival of the fittest", tried to apply the concepts of evolution to ...

In Spencer's view, human society was evolving from a "militant" state, which was characterized by violence and coercion, to an "industrial" one, characterized by trade and voluntary cooperation.

Herbert Spencer was born at Derby in 1820 of a middle-class family, members of which had often pushed religious and political non-conformity to the point of eccentricity. Even at school he exhibited ...

I was disappointed to learn that Mary Midgley attributes much of Christian fundamentalists’ fear and hatred of evolution to Herbert Spencer’s social Darwinism, which he promulgated in the US ...