The Data of Ethics

by Herbert Spencer

Book Overview

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), Victorian philosopher, biologist, sociologist and political theorist, one of the founders of Social Darwinism and author of the phrase 'survival of the fittest', was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1902, losing out to Theodor Mommsen. Spencer left his post at The Economist in 1857 to focus on writing his ten-volume System of Synthetic Philosophy, a work that offers an ethics-based guide to human conduct...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108040853
• ISBN13: 9781108040853
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"