Spencer issued this opening part of his Principles of Ethics early, afraid he might not live to finish his system. He treats conduct as part of evolution, defining good and bad conduct by their effects on life and happiness, and examines morality from physical, biological, psychological and sociological points of view before weighing egoism against altruism.
The core statement of evolutionary ethics by the Victorian thinker who coined “survival of the fittest”. Download the free EPUB.