Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)
Thinker, writer
[HS] was a laissez-faire radical at a time when academia was becoming ever more illiberal. He was an opponent of militarism, economic regulation, infringement on personal liberty, and government centralization. He played a huge role in the history of ideas, one that contemporary sociologists have sadly neglected other than to dismiss him as a "social Darwinist." In fact, his great contribution was precisely to untangle the study of society from all claims that it operated as a life form apart from the choices made by individuals. --Mises.org
Pubs
- Most everything of his is online at oll, mises,...
The Right to Ignore the State at mises.org from chapter 19 of Spencer's first major work of political philosophy — Social Statics: or, The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed (1851) in which his first principle is that of Equal Liberty: "that every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberty by every other man."]
- Voluntary Outlawry
- Legislative Authority Can Never Be Ethical
- The Only Legitimate Source of Power
- The Immorality of Majority Rule
- Representation versus Consent
- Religious Liberty and Civil Liberty
- Social Morality and Social Evolution
