Social Spencerism

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Social Spencerism

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Tim Delaney relates how Herbert Spencer, inventor of the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’, originally applied evolutionary thinking to human society and culture.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/71/Social_Spencerism
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Philosophy Now wrote:Tim Delaney relates how Herbert Spencer, inventor of the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’, originally applied evolutionary thinking to human society and culture.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/71/Social_Spencerism
You might as well say social Lamarkism as Darwinism with more accuracy, since Lamarck believed that attributes were acquired during an organisms lifetime that made it more fit ad hoc, like memes. Society changes more like that than the more desperate Darwinist change which requires the failure of unfit organism to die leaving no progeny, but where each of us keeps the genes they were born with regardless of our experience.
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