Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy
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Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy is a comprehensive 19th-century philosophical system that applies evolutionary principles to explain the development of the cosmos, life, mind, society, and morality in a unified framework.
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| Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy canonical | 3 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy Context triple: [The Principles of Sociology, partOf, Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy]
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer was a 19th-century English philosopher and sociologist best known for applying evolutionary theory to social and ethical issues and popularizing the concept of "survival of the fittest."
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Bergsonianism
Bergsonianism is a philosophical movement based on Henri Bergson’s ideas about intuition, duration, and creative evolution, which significantly influenced thinkers such as Georges Sorel.
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Course of Positive Philosophy
Course of Positive Philosophy is Auguste Comte’s foundational multi-volume work that systematically outlines positivism and the hierarchy of the sciences, laying the groundwork for modern sociology.
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Section I Of the Different Species of Philosophy
"Section I Of the Different Species of Philosophy" is the opening section of David Hume’s *An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding*, in which he distinguishes between different kinds of philosophical inquiry and their respective aims and methods.
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The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences
The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences is William Whewell’s major 19th-century work in the philosophy of science, elaborating a systematic account of scientific method and the role of induction in the development of scientific knowledge.
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gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy Target entity description: Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy is a comprehensive 19th-century philosophical system that applies evolutionary principles to explain the development of the cosmos, life, mind, society, and morality in a unified framework.
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A.
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer was a 19th-century English philosopher and sociologist best known for applying evolutionary theory to social and ethical issues and popularizing the concept of "survival of the fittest."
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B.
Bergsonianism
Bergsonianism is a philosophical movement based on Henri Bergson’s ideas about intuition, duration, and creative evolution, which significantly influenced thinkers such as Georges Sorel.
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C.
Course of Positive Philosophy
Course of Positive Philosophy is Auguste Comte’s foundational multi-volume work that systematically outlines positivism and the hierarchy of the sciences, laying the groundwork for modern sociology.
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D.
Section I Of the Different Species of Philosophy
"Section I Of the Different Species of Philosophy" is the opening section of David Hume’s *An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding*, in which he distinguishes between different kinds of philosophical inquiry and their respective aims and methods.
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E.
The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences
The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences is William Whewell’s major 19th-century work in the philosophy of science, elaborating a systematic account of scientific method and the role of induction in the development of scientific knowledge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
19th-century philosophy
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philosophical system ⓘ work of philosophy ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
explain development of life
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explain development of mind ⓘ explain development of morality ⓘ explain development of society ⓘ explain development of the universe ⓘ unify scientific knowledge ⓘ |
| appliesToDomain |
biology
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cosmos ⓘ ethics ⓘ psychology ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| author | Herbert Spencer ⓘ |
| centralThesis | evolution is a universal law applying to all phenomena ⓘ |
| coreConcept |
evolution
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integration and differentiation ⓘ persistence of force ⓘ survival of the fittest ⓘ the unknowable ⓘ universal evolution ⓘ |
| critiquedBy |
T. H. Huxley
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linked to:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Émile Durkheim ⓘ |
| critiquedFor | overextension of biological evolution to social and moral domains ⓘ |
| epistemologicalStance | empiricism ⓘ |
| hasPart |
First Principles
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The Principles of Biology ⓘ The Principles of Ethics ⓘ The Principles of Psychology ⓘ The Principles of Sociology ⓘ |
| influenced |
classical liberalism
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early sociology ⓘ evolutionary ethics ⓘ social Darwinism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Auguste Comte
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linked to:
Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte
British empiricist tradition ⓘ Charles Darwin ⓘ |
| mainLanguage | English ⓘ |
| methodologicalApproach | synthetic method ⓘ |
| ontologicalStance | naturalism ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool |
British empiricism
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evolutionary philosophy ⓘ positivism ⓘ |
| publicationSpanEnd | 1893 ⓘ |
| publicationSpanStart | 1860 ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| viewOnKnowledge | ultimate reality is partly unknowable ⓘ |
| viewOnMorality | morality evolves with social development ⓘ |
| viewOnSociety | society is an organism ⓘ |
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