1. Herbert Spencer
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... they rarely used the actual term Social Darwinism. Richard Hofstadter presented social Darwinism as a convergence of evolution and social theory. Possibly the only obvious social Darwinist using this definition was Herbert Spencer. It would suit this discussion better to use the Encarta dictionary definition, "a discredited social theory stating that the political and economic advantages in a developed society are ... and consequently were not Darwinists. So then what was a social Darwinist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century? To answer this question one must start with He...
... aid to copies of themselves. This theory can only explain altruism when the donor and recipient are akin to each other. But what about those situations where they aren't related? Packer (1977) struggled to understand the evolution of cooperation in different taxa, and studying primates was one of the most complicated tasks. He then discovered reciprocal altruism among male olive baboons ... ...
... and recipient are related. But what about those instances when the altruist is completely unrelated? For example, unrelated male baboons will often help other males gain access to fertile females (Packer, 1977, as cited in Barrett, Dunbar & Lycett, 2002). This appears to be true altruism as there is a cost for the male who helps but no benefit. However, at a later date ... ...
... come up with it first. Instead of accepting his ideals and revolutionary concepts, they rejected them and mislabeled his process deliberately. It was the egocentric views of such contemporaries as Herbert Spencer that led to the establishing of "evolution- as the general name for Darwin's process. "Spencer held a dominating status as Victorian pundit and grand panjandrum of nearly everything conceptual (326 ... ...
... his theory of evolution stating that the creatures best suited to the environment would survive and produce the next generation whereas ones not suited would die because they couldn't compete. Herbert Spencer, the "father of social Darwinism", was a philosopher and scientist who developed his own theory, "the survival of the fittest". Spencer saw human society as an evolutionary process in which ... ...
... the rebuttal its stated that all of the philosophers who incorporated Darwin's ideas have created or encouraged negative, ignoble, and destructive ideas or actions. For example Karl Marx-inspired communism, Herbert Spencer's "social Darwinism", and Friedrich Nierzsche's philosophy which laid the foundation for the Nazi movement in Germany. Most of these philosophies denounced the Christian morals of compassion for the powerless ... ...