Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Abel, Betty

Titel

HERBERT SPENCER: THE MAN VERSUS THE STATE

Ist Teil von

• CONTEMPORARY REVIEW, 1982-07, Vol.241 (1398), p.37-44

Erscheinungsjahr

1982

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• SPENCER'S WHOLE THEORETICAL SYSTEM CONSISTS OF AN ANALOGY SO FAR EXTENDED AS TO BECOME A METAPHOR AND TO POSSESS AN ORGANIC LIFE OF ITS OWN. THE LAWS OF SCIENCE HOLD HIM IN THEIR GRIP; HE WISHES TO TIDY UP THE UNIVERSE IN THEIR LIGHT; BUT HE FAILS TO RECOGNISE THE POINT AT WHICH HIS EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE BECOMES A STRANGLEHOLD ON A VISION THAT IS REVELATORY, NOT QUANTIFIABLE OR VERIFIABLE.