Social Statics

Opis książki:

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE DECLARES THAT ALL MEN are created equal, that they arę endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these arę Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Some persons, even educated persons, have misunderstood this statement of Jefferson. It means to them that persons arę equal in mental power and physical power, whereas Jefferson meant that men arę equal with respect to the gifts with which the Creator has endowed the human race. The statement could read, with a ciumsy phrase, "All men arr created equal with respect to their endowment by the Creator with the right to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." This statement is being challenged now as never before because a philosophy heid and preached by many thousands denies the existence of a Creator, denies all natural rights, denies all moral law. The book, Social Statics, by Herbert Spencer, is based on the rights of man and on the existence of a Creator who endowed him with those rights, just as Jefferson declared in that basie document of the United States which underlies our Constitution. After forty years of work over his synthetic philosophy, Herbert Spencer dissented from some of the conclusions of Social Statics, saying in a letter to the London "Times" dated November 6, 1889, "I have refrained from issuing new editions of that work and have interdicted translations because though I stiii adhere to the generał principles, I dissent from some of the deductions." While the book in all its parts does not, therefore, have the authority of Mr. Spencer, it has been accepted as written by many people and presents its own great argument. This argument is sorely needed today. October, 1954,

Książka "Social Statics" - Herbert Spencer - oprawa twarda - Wydawnictwo Robert Schalkenbach Foundation.