Herbert Spencer and "Evolution"--An Additional Note

University education -on almost modern lines existed in India as early as 800 B.C. or even earlier. The learning or culture of ancient India was chiefly the product of her hermitages in the solitude of the forests. It was not of the cities. The learning of the forests was embodied in the books specially designated as Aranyakas "belonging to the forests." The ideal of education has been very grand, noble and high in ancient India. Its aimaccording to Herbert Spencer is the 'training for completeness of life' and ‘the molding o character of men and women for the battle of life’. The history of the educational institutions in ancient India shows a glorious dateline of her cultural history. It points to a long history altogether. In the early stage it was rural, not urban. British Sanskrit scholar Arthur Anthony Macdonell says "Some hundreds of years must have been needed for all that is found" in her culture. The aim of education was at the manifestation of the divinity in men, it touches the highest point of knowledge. In order to attain the goal the whole educational method is based on plain living and high thinking pursued through eternity.

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Lectures on the Ethics of T. H. Green, Mr. Herbert Spencer, and James Martineau. Henry Sidgwick

The International Journal of Ethics ◽

10.1086/intejethi.14.1.2376026 ◽

1903 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 106-115

Author(s):

S. H. Mellone

Keyword(s):

Herbert Spencer ◽

Henry Sidgwick

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HERBERT SPENCER’S CASE FOR FREE BANKING

Journal of the History of Economic Thought ◽

10.1017/s1053837220000103 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

George Bragues

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Money Supply ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Free Banking ◽

Herbert Spencer ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

The Government

Though now almost entirely forgotten, Herbert Spencer was among the most widely read thinkers during the late nineteenth century. As part of his system of synthetic philosophy, Herbert Spencer addressed the topics of money and banking. This philosophic system articulates a concept of justice based on the principle of equal freedom. Invoking this principle, Spencer rejected a government-superintended regime of money and banking as unjust. Instead, he morally favored a system of free banking. Spencer also defended this system on economic grounds. His argument was that banks could be self-regulating in their management of the money supply, on the condition that the government limit its activities in the financial sphere to the enforcement of contracts. While Spencer’s case is not beyond questioning on philosophic and political grounds, he offers a distinctive and forceful analysis.

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Deductive Hedonism and the Anxiety of Influence

Utilitas ◽

10.1017/s0953820800002922 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 329-346 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

D. Weinstein

Keyword(s):

Evolutionary Theory ◽

Moral Rights ◽

The Real ◽

Herbert Spencer ◽

Anxiety Of Influence

This paper examines the undervalued role of Herbert Spencer in Sidgwick's thinking. Sidgwick recognized Spencer's utilitarianism, but criticized him on the ground that he tried to deduce utilitarianism from evolutionary theory. In analysing these criticisms, this paper concludes that Spencer's deductive methodology was in fact closer to Sidgwick's empiricist position than Sidgwick realized. The real source of Sidgwick's unhappiness withSpencer lies with the substance of Spencer's utilitarianism, namely its espousal of indefeasible moral rights.

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