Primers principis
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- APAHerbert Spencer. (n.d.). Primers principis. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/herbert-spencer/first-principles
- MLAHerbert Spencer. "Primers principis." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/herbert-spencer/first-principles.
- ChicagoHerbert Spencer. Primers principis. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/herbert-spencer/first-principles.
De què tracta
El volum que obre el sistema de Spencer: primer, allò que la ciència no pot conèixer, i després la llei única que ell creia que explicava tota la resta.
Context i història
Publicat el 1862. La primera part concedeix a la religió que hi ha un Incognoscible i el deixa fora de la ciència; la segona defineix l'evolució com el pas del que és homogeni i indefinit al que és heterogeni i definit, i des d'aquí Spencer aplicarà la mateixa fórmula a la biologia, la psicologia, la sociologia i l'ètica en els volums següents. Aquell projecte de fer un sistema únic per a totes les ciències és el que la posteritat no li ha comprat, i és el que fa que se'l llegeixi com a document.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
This volume is the first of a series described in a prospectus originally distributed in March, 1860. Of that prospectus, the annexed is a reprint. A SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY. Mr. Herbert Spencer proposes to issue in periodical parts a connected series of works which he has for several years been preparing. Some conception of the general aim and scope of this series may be gathered from the following Programme. FIRST PRINCIPLES. PART I. THE UNKNOWABLE.—Carrying a step further the doctrine put into shape by Hamilton and Mansel; pointing out the various directions in which Science leads to the same conclusions; and showing that in this united belief in an Absolute that transcends not only human knowledge but human conception, lies the only possible reconciliation of Science and Religion. PART II. LAWS OF THE KNOWABLE.—A statement of the ultimate principles discernible throughout all manifestations of the Absolute—those highest generalizations now being disclosed by Science which are severally true not of one class of phenomena but of _all_ classes of phenomena; and which are thus the keys to all classes of phenomena.[1] [_In logical order should here come the application of these First Principles to Inorganic Nature. But this great division it is proposed to pass over: partly because, even without it, the scheme is too extensive; and partly because the interpretation of Organic Nature after the proposed method, is of more immediate importance. The second work of the series will therefore be_—] THE PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY. PART I. THE DATA OF BIOLOGY.…