Les dades de l'ètica
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Cita aquesta obra
- APAHerbert Spencer. (n.d.). Les dades de l'ètica. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/herbert-spencer/the-data-of-ethics
- MLAHerbert Spencer. "Les dades de l'ètica." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/herbert-spencer/the-data-of-ethics.
- ChicagoHerbert Spencer. Les dades de l'ètica. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/herbert-spencer/the-data-of-ethics.
De què tracta
El llibre del 1879 en què Spencer va intentar fundar la moral sobre la biologia: la conducta bona es la que afavoreix la vida, i l'evolucio ens hi porta.
Context i història
Es la primera part del seu sistema d'etica, i el va publicar avancat perque temia morir sense escriure'l. L'argument encadena tres passos: la conducta es una adaptacio de mitjans a fins; una conducta es mes evolucionada com millor manté la vida de qui la fa, dels seus fills i dels seus semblants; i, per tant, el desenvolupament moral consisteix a fer que aquestes tres coses deixin de xocar. Spencer creia que l'evolucio hi porta sola i que arribaria un estat on el deure ja no caldria perque fer el be seria plaent. Es una de les temptatives mes serioses de derivar l'«ha de ser» del «es», i G. E. Moore la va agafar precisament com a exemple del que ell va anomenar la fal·lacia naturalista.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
A reference to the programme of the "System of Synthetic Philosophy" will show that the chapters herewith issued constitute the first division of the work on the _Principles of Morality_, with which the System ends. As the second and third volumes of the _Principles of Sociology_ are as yet unpublished, this installment of the succeeding work appears out of its place. I have been led thus to deviate from the order originally set down by the fear that persistence in conforming to it might result in leaving the final work of the series unexecuted. Hints, repeated of late years with increasing frequency and distinctness, have shown me that health may permanently fail, even if life does not end, before I reach the last part of the task I have marked out for myself. This last part of the task it is to which I regard all the preceding parts as subsidiary. Written as far back as 1842, my first essay, consisting of letters on The _Proper Sphere of Government_, vaguely indicated what I conceived to be certain general principles of right and wrong in political conduct, and from that time onward my ultimate purpose, lying behind all proximate purposes, has been that of finding for the principles of right and wrong, in conduct at large, a scientific basis. To leave this purpose unfulfilled, after making so extensive a preparation for fulfilling it, would be a failure the probability of which I do not like to contemplate, and I am anxious to preclude it, if not wholly, still partially. Hence the step I now take. Though this first division of the work terminating the Synthetic Philosophy, cannot, of course, contain the specific conclusions to be set forth in the entire work, yet it implies them in such wise that, definitely to formulate them requires nothing beyond logical deduction.