Herbert Spencer

En estas épocas oscuras, donde estados autoritarios se visten de democracias, donde las injerencias contra la soberanía personal y los derechos individuales y personales del ciudadano se ven vulnerados continuamente, Eneida editorial ofrece, en su colecci

Si los hombres emplean su libertad de tal manera que renuncian a esta, ¿puede considerarseles por ello menos esclavos? Si el pueblo elige por un plebiscito a un despota para gobernarlo, ¿sigue siendo libre por el hecho de que el despotismo ha sido su propia obra? La funcion del liberalismo en el pasado era poner un limite a los poderes de los reyes. La funcion del verdadero liberalismo en el futuro sera la de poner un limite al poder de los parlamentos.

Reconsiderar a Spencer. Pensarlo, en pleno siglo XXI. Al sociologo, al psicologo, al filosofo, al antropologo avant la lettre, al biologo, al teorico evolucionista. Es un ejercicio util desde el punto de vista de la historia de las ideas. Permite evaluaro en su justo merito, mas alla de las caricaturas de sus enemigos, aunque tambien lejos de la apropiacion doblemente interesada de sus nuevos amigos.

Introduction: Charles W. Eliot

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Le texte ici présenté rassemble quatre articles publiés initialement dans la «Contemporary Review» en 1884, aussitôt réunis par Spencer dans un recueil The Man versus the State [L’individu contre l’É

Le texte ici présenté rassemble quatre articles publiés initialement dans la «Contemporary Review» en 1884, aussitôt réunis par Spencer dans un recueil The Man versus the State [L’individu contre l’É

LA RELEVANCIA ENTRE LAS IDEAS Y LOS DERECHOS DE LOS INDIVIDUOS EN EL ESTADO Y SU CONSTITUCIÓNLA RELEVANCIA ENTRE LAS IDEAS Y LOS DERECHOS DE LOS INDIVIDUOS EN EL ESTADO Y SU CONSTITUCIÓN

Reconsiderar a Spencer. Pensarlo, en pleno siglo XXI. Al sociólogo, al psicólogo, al filosofo, al antropólogo avant la lettre, al biólogo, al teórico evolucionista. Es un ejercicio útil desde el punto de vista de la historia de las ideas. Permite evaluar en su justo merito, mas alla de las caricaturas de sus enemigos, aunque tambien lejos de la apropiacion doblemente interesada de sus nuevos amigos.

La grande conquête de la science moderne, le grand pas fait dans la connaissance, écrit Émile Faguet à la fin de son traité De Dieu, c’est d’avoir délimité l’inconnaissable. Au delà de ce qui se voit

The training of childrenphysical, moral, and intellectualis dreadfully defective. And in great measure it is so because parents are devoid of that knowledge by which this training can alone be rightly guided. What is to be expected when one of the most intricate of problems is undertaken by those who have given scarcely a thought to the principles on which its solution depends?... If there requires further evidence of the rude, undeveloped character of our education, we have it in the fact that the comparative worths of different kinds of knowledge have been as yet scarcely even discussedmuch less discussed in a methodic way with definite results. Not only is it that no standard of relative values has yet been agreed upon; but the existence of any such standard has not been conceived in a clear manner. And not only is it that the existence of such a standard has not been clearly conceived; but the need for it seems to have been scarcely even felt. Men read books on this topic, and attend lectures on that; decide that their children shall be instructed in these branches of knowledge, and shall not be instructed in those; and all under the guidance of mere custom, or liking, or prejudice; without ever considering the enormous importance of determining in some rational way what things are really most worth learning. It is true that in all circles we hear occasional remarks on the importance of this or the other order of information... There cannot fail to be a relationship between the successive systems of education, and the successive social states with which they have co-existed. Having a common origin in the national mind, the institutions of each epoch, whatever be their special functions, must have a family likeness. When men received their creed and its interpretations from an infallible authority deigning no explanations, it was natural that the teaching of children should be purely dogmatic. While "believe and ask no questions" was the maxim of the Church, it was fitly the maxim of the school. Conversely, now that Protestantism has gained for adults a right of private judgment and established the practice of appealing to reason, there is harmony in the change that has made juvenile instruction a process of exposition addressed to the understanding.