TY - BOOK ID - 78010682 TI - The principles of ethics AU - Spencer, Herbert AU - Machan, Tibor R. PY - 1978 SN - 1461937086 1614878617 9781461937081 0913966347 9780913966341 0913966754 9780913966754 PB - Indianapolis : Liberty Classics, DB - UniCat KW - Ethics, Evolutionary. KW - Ethics. KW - Ethics, Naturalistic KW - Evolutionary ethics KW - Naturalistic ethics KW - Ethics KW - Ethical relativism KW - Deontology KW - Ethics, Primitive KW - Ethology KW - Moral philosophy KW - Morality KW - Morals KW - Philosophy, Moral KW - Science, Moral KW - Philosophy KW - Values UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78010682 AB - Though almost forgotten today, Herbert Spencer ranks as one of the foremost individualist philosophers. His influence in the latter half of the nineteenth century was immense. Spencer's name is usually linked with Darwin's, for it was he who penned the phrase, "survival of the fittest." Today in America he is most often admired for his trenchant essays in The Man Versus the State. But Spencer himself considered The Principles of Ethics to be his finest work. In the second volume, under "Justice," is his final statement on the role of the state. His formula for justice is summed up in these words: "Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." ER -