Personality and the State. Experiments on the State, Society and Freedom
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Personality and the State. Experiments on the State, Society and Freedom
14.99 €
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English philosopher and sociologist, one of the founders of positivism, the founder of the organic school in sociology, and a representative of classical liberalism.
In the essays collected in this volume, the author documents the process of gradual degeneration in Great Britain after 1850 of classical liberalism into what in the twentieth century would come to be called social liberalism, and the resulting return to a mercantilist and militant social order. Spencer shows how the gradual increase in the power of the state imperceptibly leads to despotism and enslavement. He criticizes legislators for ignoring the economic laws that coordinate the desires and efforts of people; he attacks the doctrine of the unlimited sovereignty of government, whether monarchical or parliamentary, and the related conception of rights as created by the state and therefore just as easily abolished by the state.
In the essays collected in this volume, the author documents the process of gradual degeneration in Great Britain after 1850 of classical liberalism into what in the twentieth century would come to be called social liberalism, and the resulting return to a mercantilist and militant social order. Spencer shows how the gradual increase in the power of the state imperceptibly leads to despotism and enslavement. He criticizes legislators for ignoring the economic laws that coordinate the desires and efforts of people; he attacks the doctrine of the unlimited sovereignty of government, whether monarchical or parliamentary, and the related conception of rights as created by the state and therefore just as easily abolished by the state.
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