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... social perspective of gradual social progress and organic growth . Optimistic theories of social development were also rein- forced by the social appropriation of the laws of the conserva- tion of energy that were , in 1847 , extended ...
... social perspective of gradual social progress and organic growth . Optimistic theories of social development were also rein- forced by the social appropriation of the laws of the conserva- tion of energy that were , in 1847 , extended ...
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... social preoccupation with unity and historical continuity in the development of the social organism . Spencer's theory of the physiological bases of rational thought clearly reinforces dominant social ideology . George Eliot's use of ...
... social preoccupation with unity and historical continuity in the development of the social organism . Spencer's theory of the physiological bases of rational thought clearly reinforces dominant social ideology . George Eliot's use of ...
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... social or psychological development , his original impetus was to affirm the reign of order throughout the physi- cal and social realms . Eliot's work is characterized by a simi- lar duality . As I suggested earlier , she employs ...
... social or psychological development , his original impetus was to affirm the reign of order throughout the physi- cal and social realms . Eliot's work is characterized by a simi- lar duality . As I suggested earlier , she employs ...
Contents
Contributors | 7 |
Introduction | 15 |
Nature as Ethical Norm in the Enlightenment | 51 |
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