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... theory and assimi- lated to the 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 ...
... theory and assimi- lated to the 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 ...
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... theory of the three stages of human development , all associated social progress directly with the increase of rational control . Herbert Spencer , taking the theory one step further , placed these evolutionary beliefs on a ...
... theory of the three stages of human development , all associated social progress directly with the increase of rational control . Herbert Spencer , taking the theory one step further , placed these evolutionary beliefs on a ...
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... theory of development . She clearly does not hold to the model of the rational , self - controlling actor that underpinned contemporary theories of economic and social progress . Like Lewes , whose physiological theory of psychol- ogy ...
... theory of development . She clearly does not hold to the model of the rational , self - controlling actor that underpinned contemporary theories of economic and social progress . Like Lewes , whose physiological theory of psychol- ogy ...
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Contributors | 7 |
Introduction | 15 |
Nature as Ethical Norm in the Enlightenment | 51 |
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