First Principles | Victorian Metaphysics, Cosmic Evolution, and the Quest to Reconcile Religion with Science

Herbert Spencer

ISBN 10: 8027296153 / ISBN 13: 9788027296156

Published by Good Press, 2022

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First Principles | Victorian Metaphysics, Cosmic Evolution, and the Quest to Reconcile Religion with Science | Herbert Spencer | Taschenbuch | Englisch | Good Press | EAN 9788027296156 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: OK Publishing s.r.o., 20a, Kosíre, Zahradníckova 1220, 150 00 PRAGUE, TSCHECHIEN, obrody[at]gmail[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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• Title: First Principles | Victorian Metaphysics, Cosmic Evolution, and the Quest to Reconcile Religion with Science
• Publisher: Good Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8027296153
• ISBN 13: 9788027296156
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 13D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 351 grams
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Synopsis

First Principles is Herbert Spencer's ambitious prolegomenon to his "Synthetic Philosophy," an attempt to organize all knowledge under a single evolutionary law. Moving from metaphysics to cosmology, biology, psychology, and sociology, the book argues that reality proceeds from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous through the persistence of force. Its style is austere, architectonic, and resolutely Victorian: abstract, classificatory, and confident in the explanatory power of science. It also occupies a crucial literary-intellectual context, seeking to reconcile religion and science by defining the ultimate ground of existence as "the Unknowable." Spencer, one of the most influential English thinkers of the nineteenth century, was largely self-educated and formed by engineering, journalism, liberal individualism, and the rapid expansion of scientific discovery. Writing in the wake of Lyell and Darwin, he sought not merely to interpret evolution biologically but to elevate it into a universal principle governing mind, society, and the cosmos. First Principles reflects both his breadth and his age's hunger for systematic order. This book is recommended to readers interested in Victorian thought, intellectual history, philosophy of science, or the genealogy of evolutionary ideas. Though some claims now appear dated, its conceptual audacity and historical importance remain undeniable.