Herbert Spencer's Philosophy

[HERBERT SPENCER]

First of all who is Herbert Spencer? What is the cause of his popularity? What was his contributions in the world of philosophy? Now lets find it out!


 Herbert Spencer was born in April 27, 1820 in Derby, Derbyshire, England, and Died December 8, 1903, at Brighton, Sussex. He is an English sociologist and philosopher, The notable works of Spencer was the following: “The proper sphere of government”, “The synthetic philosophy”, “The principles of psychology”, “The man versus state”, “Descriptive sociology”, “The principles of sociology”, “First principles”, and the “Social statics”. His Philosophy was Synthetic philosophy; it contains principles of biology, psychology, morality, and sociology. He was known for his doctrine of social Darwinism. Spencer saw philosophy as a synthesis of the fundamental principles of the special sciences; He thought of unification in terms of development, His whole scheme was in fact suggested to him by the evolution of biological species.

 Spencer thought that evolution was caused by the inheritance of acquired characteristics, Natural selection was one of the causes of biological evolution, natural selection refers to the change of the anatomy of one species to cope up with the new environment they are into or living in, Spencer Points out in His philosophy was the evolution of every species varied upon the environment, so if the environment of one species changes, that species will change too to live accordingly to the new environment they’re into. In his first principle he argued that there is a fundamental law of matter, which he called law of persistence of force from which it follows that nothing homogenous can remain as such if it is acted upon, because any external force must affect some part of it differently from other parts and cause difference and variety to arise, which means that no certain species will evolve if there is no external force or external changes in the environment, however they can survive by using the natural selection wherein they need to adjust or manifest something to live accordingly to the certain change of environment in a certain habitat, these kind of evolution was manifested by our early ancestors the homo sapiens by their own consciousness or willingness to survive in the world they’re living, the “survival of the fittest” will now come, on this time the battle of the species began wherein they need to kill to have food and to live, and still happening until now.

 Spencer published his idea of evolution of biological species before the views of Charles Darwin and the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace was known, Spencer accepted the theory that natural selection was one of the causes of the biological evolution. Herbert Spencer’s philosophy tells that the evolution of every species was naturally made or change by its own environment, because the habitats or a certain species adjust according to the changes of the world and so as the species itself, so do as the mankind but the difference is that the evolution of mankind was because of the consciousness of a certain individual for the sake of their own species the consciousness of the homo sapiens made their own evolution not by natural selection but by their own willingness to live and the consciousness of the Homo sapiens that made them to evolve into what we called mankind or human. 

Humans continuously increases its consciousness and that consciousness increased beyond its limit and it became intelligence wherein the most successful species that evolved with consciousness was the Homo sapiens, the philosophy of Spencer really points out that no species will evolve if its own habitat is not changing, hence these evolution of every species occurs by time until now there are species that is still evolving even humans is still in progress of evolving in its final state, therefore evolution never stops until the changes in its own habitat stops, however there are some species that only evolved once and didn’t evolved again and didn’t adjust to the environment or habitat they are living in, it means that the capacity of sustaining itself is undeniably incredible, evolution in every species is necessary because if they don’t evolve the possibility of extinction of their own species will increase to the point that it will reach the number of 0 species left on that certain species, dinosaurs isn’t yet extinct because they evolve into smaller reptile one to adjust to the new habitat they’re living now.

 Therefore, I conclude that no evolution will occur if there is no external force that will affect their species to change, the evolution changes the anatomy of a certain species that will suit the new environment they are dealing, Spencer's philosophy was truly amazing, he analyzed how and why we evolved using his philosophy, this philosophy analyses the true meaning of a certain matter to the world or what it should be in the world or what is the necessary meaning of Certain thing to our world, he actually analyzed and  proposed  that evolution  naturally occurs when it is necessary for the sake of their own species to live according to the new habitat they are living in.