William Stanley Jevons vs. Herbert Spencer

Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers

William Stanley Jevons

1835 – 1882

Economics

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

William Stanley Jevons was an English economist and logician.

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Herbert Spencer

1820 – 1903

Philosophy

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

positivism

Herbert Spencer was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in Principles of Biology (1864) after reading Charles Darwin's 1859 book On the Origin of Species. The term strongly suggests natural selection, yet Spencer saw evolution as extending into realms of sociology and ethics, so he also supported Lamarckism.

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