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Bookmark or Share- Spencer Chandra Herbert sounds off on priorities as Minister ...BEFORE SPENCER CHANDRA Herbert was a politician, first elected as the MLA for Vancouver-Burrard (now Vancouver-West End) in 2008 (the youngest MLA in the legislature), he was an artist. He spent time working with Judith Marcuse, the Vancouver TheatreSports League (now known as The Improv Centre), Neworld Theatre, and Leaky Heaven Circus.
- Herbert Spencer Biography - eNotes.comArticle abstract: Best known as the leading Social Darwinist of the nineteenth century, Spencer was a broad-ranging thinker who epitomized the scientific mentality of his age. He coined the...
- Herbert Spencer - Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHerbert Spencer (1820–1903) is typically, though quite wrongly, considered a coarse social Darwinist. After all, Spencer, and not Darwin, coined the infamous expression “survival of the fittest”, leading G. E. Moore to conclude erroneously in Principia Ethica (1903) that Spencer committed the naturalistic fallacy.
- Notes to Herbert Spencer - Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyAlso see Spencer 1879–93 [1978, II, 195], for Spencer’s account of basic moral rights as emergent, indefeasible conventions. For an example of crude Darwinism in The Man Versus the State , see 113–4 where Spencer condemns poor law reform for compelling “diligent and provident” citizens “to pay that the good-for-nothings might not ...
- Herbert Spencer - WikipediaHerbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in Principles of Biology (1864) after reading Charles Darwin 's 1859 book On the Origin of Species.
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