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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Herbert Spencer"”.
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Durkheim's Refutation of Spencerian Methodological Individualism: A Critical Evaluation.
… writings of the classical British sociologist Herbert Spencer. In this thesis I critically evaluate Durkheim's critique of Herbert Spencer's methodological individualism. It is found that while select Durkheimian claims merit continued allegiance, his broader critique of Spencer's …
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John Dewey and cultural racism
… and was not a scientific racist in the vein of Herbert Spencer, Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy of human social development was implicitly racist in ways he did not realize. I support my claim by first giving an overview of the changing connotation of the term “race” within the history of European …
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Chimeras and Jagunços: Positivist Discourse in Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões
… Comte, Charles Darwin, and, in particular, Herbert Spencer. Positivist progress was, however, contingent upon the elimination of the pathological, amorphous 'savage lower races. Non-white degeneration in Brazil, especially amongst its substantial mixed-race populace, was thus understood to …
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Symptomatic writings: prefigurations of Freudian theories and models of the mind in the fiction of Sheridan Le Fanu, Wilkie Collins and George Eliot
… the ideas of George Henry Lewes (1817-1878) and Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) are evident in their fictions. Throughout, I show that unconscious mental processes were discussed decades before Freud.
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The religious and political thought of Swami Vivekananda
… was influenced by the evolutionary ideas of Herbert Spencer, which emphasized struggle and the eventual survival of the fittest. Verma therefore concluded that Vivekananda advocated what Verma called `righteous terrorism', which was an attempt to purify the Indian race, to weed out the weak …
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H.P. Blavatsky, theosophy, and nineteenth-century comparative religion
… such as F. Max Müller, E. B. Tylor, and Herbert Spencer, in positioning her theosophical comparative religion in the context of late nineteenth-century production of knowledge about religion and religions. This thesis demonstrates that H. P. Blavatsky's comparative religion was reasoned, …
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Liberty, peace, and friendliness: the political ideas of Auberon Herbert
The political ideas of Auberon Herbert are usually associated with the late Victorian Individualist thinkers primarily influenced by the philosopher Herbert Spencer. Although Herbert derived his political philosophy of Voluntaryism from Spencer’s thinking it also owed much to J. S. Mill. …
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Aims of Education in the Writings of Ellen White
… For a selected context, the educational ideas of Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and the Manual Education movements were examined.</p> <p>Conclusions. The study reveals that the ultimate aims of education in the thinking of Spencer and Dewey were focused on the “complete living” and the maximum …
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The unhealed wound : Olive Schreiner's expressive art
… intellectual production. Looking at the work of Herbert Spencer, the influential social philosopher who used scientific principles as the basis for his ideas about social order, I analyse the way in which Olive Schreiner rewrites his theory in order to make a space for women as cultural …
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William Dean Howells and the New Science: Darwinian Evolution and the Rise of Realism
Broad acceptance of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species emboldened a young William Dean Howells to explore the possibility of a scientific foundation for a new literature combining close observations of the immediate environment with a method of interpreting these observations based on evolutionary …
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Glucose Catabolism in Streptomyces Venezuelae
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