Historical Who is Who

Though writing independently of the biologist Darwin, Herbert Spencer is rightly regarded as a ‘Social Darwinian’ in that he set out in an influential series of books a universal theory regarding the evolution of society and ethics. ‘Survival of the fittest’ legitimises the emergent domination of one grouping over another/others. Moral education builds on learning from past mistakes; the astute adult and teacher must take responsibility for managing this process.

• Life

  http://www.victorianweb.org/philosophy/spencer/spencer.html

  http://www.nndb.com/people/013/000094728

  http://www.iep.utm.edu/spencer

  http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/ThinkersPdf/spencere.pdf 

• Writings

  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1887

  http://oll.libertyfund.org/people/herbert-spencer

  http://www.panarchy.org/spencer/ignore.state.1851.html

  https://mises.org/library/moral-education